Richard Lewis Springthorpe (Rick Springfield) Quotes
I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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I'm not a control freak.
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I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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I'm a very competitive person. You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, even if you don't win. But I do hate losing.
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Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
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Folks like me have to feel a little indebted to the communities that they came from. And if they do, I think we'll start to see a little bit more of a geographic integration in the country because people will start to think, 'You know what? I owe that place something, and I should return to it in one form or another.'
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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America can enjoy a vital, fully functioning government, with all the benefits provided by Texas, while reducing Texas at the same time.
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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Love somebody. Just one person. And then spread that to two. And as many as you can. You'll see the difference it makes.
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Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it.
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Maybe if I could ever be a successful comedian then I could be an example that Christians can also have fun.
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There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop.
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I'm so lucky to have such a great family. I respect them so much professionally, and they've been unconditionally supportive in the choices that I've made. It's been very good having them on my side.
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There isn't much of a music scene in Hermann, unless you like polka. But the landscape I grew up in is a part of me. I spent a lot of time in the woods doing a lot of nothing to break the boredom.
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I watch a lot of television, for better or worse, and I am particularly interested in what Michael Moore brought up in 'Bowling for Columbine,' which is the idea that they're selling a narrative of fear.
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A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
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Would I love to run around and check out if Jennifer Aniston was looking for a boyfriend? Yeah, it would be interesting for a minute. But would I trade in my life to get her and Angelina [Jolie]? No way. I've got something better. And I don't need the neuroses of two type-A personalities in my life. One is enough.
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When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
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My writing voice is very much like 'Thank You for Smoking.' It's a guy's voice. It's very masculine.
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I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.
