Richard Lewis Springthorpe (Rick Springfield) Quotes
I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.
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For everyday clothes, I love North Face and Rohan, and for smarter options, I like Whistles and Agnes b on Marylebone High Street.
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We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.
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If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is 'slowly.'
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Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
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I spent a lot of time in boarding school. This is something I will never do to my kids. I think if you're having kids, then you have to take care of them; otherwise, what's the point? There are many things that parents say are good for the kids, but the truth is they say that because it is good for the parents.
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I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
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If you make a wrong move with explosives, it could be deadly. If you're there when they blow up the beach, you get blown up, too. So you need to get your job done correctly... then pull the fuse with enough lag time for you to clear the area completely and get picked up by the small boats.
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I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
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The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.
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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
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In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.
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When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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Waka Flocka is a product, a franchise, a brand, a label... And a good guy!
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I actually have a decent singing voice, and I've never been able to sing onscreen. I'd love to do a musical.
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When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.
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Emotions are triggered by what we like to call emotionally competent stimuli, that is, objects or situations that can be real, like in front of you, or be in your mind when you think and you recall, and they act on brain devices that were designed by evolution.
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I'm a nut for these 'crime reality' shows. Things like 'Forensic Files,' 'Forensic Detectives.'
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I look for a girl without pretense who is sweet and intelligent - preferably brunette, but that's not completely important.
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Cryptography is typically bypassed, not penetrated.
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Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.
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Your life informs your writing.
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Whiplash' was just a lucky kind of convergence of events in that I'd been trying to get a bigger project off the ground with no success for a while, and then finally, out of frustration, I just wrote this leaner, meaner, personal script about my experiences as a jazz drummer, and that's the one that wound up getting made.
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I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.
