It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.
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RICK SPRINGFIELD I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.
RICK SPRINGFIELD The danger in promiscuity is that it's always barking at your heels.
RICK SPRINGFIELD I think good art does come from a dark place.
RICK SPRINGFIELD I get inspired at different times and in different ways.
RICK SPRINGFIELD You can tell when someone has had a facelift and I haven't had a facelift, and I look like I hav...
RICK SPRINGFIELD My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodn...
RICK SPRINGFIELD Every actor wants to break out of the box that they put you in and that's where I'm heading, out of ...
RICK SPRINGFIELD I'm thought of as very light 'pop-y' kind of music, but it all had very dark undercurrents and I was...
RICK SPRINGFIELD Certainly with the radio now, a lot of late 20s, 30s and 40-year-olds don't listen to that music. Th...
RICK SPRINGFIELD They're songs I honestly wish I'd written. I had a huge list of songs but wanted to keep the album a...
RICK SPRINGFIELD It's a big number, but I'm OK with it, ... I went through my midlife crisis at about 38 and 39, so I...
RICK SPRINGFIELD I think the new adventurous music is for the kids in a state of flux - they're open to all that - an...
RICK SPRINGFIELD Probably General Hospital had more to do with me getting known physically than MTV did,
RICK SPRINGFIELD I was more than just a moody artist.
RICK SPRINGFIELD I was very fortunate to be at the vanguard of music video.
RICK SPRINGFIELD [The four days have turned into a longer storyline.] I think we all need to see how it pans out, ......
RICK SPRINGFIELD Things haven't gone well for Noah.
RICK SPRINGFIELD It's a rock 'n' roll thing to have one-night stands.
RICK SPRINGFIELD Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.
RICK SPRINGFIELD Other than dying, I think puberty is probably about as rough as it gets.
RICK SPRINGFIELD Over all life is what it is and regretting is a pointless thing.
RICK SPRINGFIELD There will always be rock stars, but I don't know how much depth and longevity they'll have.
RICK SPRINGFIELD I've always liked the heavier stuff. I've always loved Tool and System of a Down, Korn and N...
RICK SPRINGFIELD I've gone pretty high at times so I think the yin yang of that is going pretty low.
RICK SPRINGFIELD My dad is a very strong figure in my life and certainly in death he's become even more meaningful. S...
RICK SPRINGFIELD I went through some therapy, working on what was going on inside me, and I got back on track. I cert...
RICK SPRINGFIELD Thirty, 40 times a day I must get questions when I'm on the road about General Hospital or Noah Drak...
RICK SPRINGFIELD Karma is not just about the troubles, but also about surmounting them.
RICK SPRINGFIELD They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doi...
RICK SPRINGFIELD I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.
RICK SPRINGFIELD If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens.
RICK SPRINGFIELD My affections are easily swayed and I can be very unfaithful.
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD I have tried sex with both men and women. I found I liked it.
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD I wouldn't know how to handle serenity if somebody handed it to me on a plate.
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD I burp like everyone else and I'm promiscuous.
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD I just decided I wanted to become someone else... So I became someone else.
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD Sometimes the ladies involved give too much of themselves, sometimes not enough.
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD Basically I'm a drag queen myself.
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly.
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last.
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD My sexuality has never been a problem to me but I think it has been for other people.
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly.
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD Sometimes you have to let people down in order to get on, particularly in showbusiness.
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD Somehow I took whatever criticism there was very much to heart.
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD A lot of people say I'm bent, and I've heard it so many times that I've almost learned to accept it.
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD Hell, have I been a hell-raiser!
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD I was a nothing kid. Not particularly good. Not particularly bad.
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD I'd love to retouch my whole life.
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD I find it an effort to keep up appearances.
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD I wouldn't know how to handle serenity if somebody handed it to me on a plate.
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD Living in the light of eternity changes your priorities.
RICK WARREN I know some people will be surprised to hear it, but I've found that my music, whether its blues...
RICK DERRINGER If you're looking for a slick politician or a guy with great teleprompter skills, we already hav...
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RICK PERRY It's not easy. I got lots of rejections when I first started out. If you want to write, you have...
RICK RIORDAN All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of...
RICK RIORDAN During my days of deepest grief, in all of my shock, sorrow and struggle, I sat at the feet of God. ...
RICK WARREN Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
RICK WARREN You can like somebody without agreeing with all of their policies.
RICK WARREN Some of the pictures in 'The Human Face of Big Data' will bring tears to your eyes; others a...
RICK SMOLAN The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomi...
RICK PERRY As hurricanes Katrina and Rita raged through the southeastern United States last summer, much of Ame...
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RICK PITINO Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect...
RICK MOODY In between 15 and 20 - probably at around 17 - my interests switched from hard rock to punk rock. An...
RICK RUBIN We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit;...
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RICK ASTLEY This whole blogging stuff has been bugging me for years. Talk about no filter on things. People feel...
RICK MORANIS I have forty-six cookbooks. I have sixty-eight takeout menus from four restaurants. I have one hundr...
RICK MORANIS You can love the good in us and hate the bad but the bad is in us too. Without it we wouldn't be us.
RICK YANCEY As many as three million people are expected to attend the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, B...
RICK LARSEN I don't recommend shadow travel if you're scared of:
a) The dark
b) Cold shivers up your s...
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Percy: the ...
RICK RIORDAN I support Donald Trump because I believe he's a businessperson that's going to get the econo...
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RICK RIORDAN Gods of Olympus.” Piper stared at Leo. “What happened to you?”
His hair was grease...
RICK RIORDAN He turned to Frank who was trying to pull his fingers out of the Chinese handcuffs…
“Okay,�...
RICK RIORDAN Save yourselves!” Percy warned. “It is too late for us!”
Then he gasped and pointed to th...
RICK RIORDAN Survive first. Figure out crayon drawing of destiny later.
RICK RIORDAN I'm the Super-sized McShizzle, man!" Leo said. "I'm Leo Valdez, bad boy supreme. And the ladies l...
RICK RIORDAN Delaying death is one of my favorite hobbies
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RICK RIORDAN I have lightning and wind powers," Jason reminded him. "Piper can turn beautiful and charm people in...
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RICK RIORDAN On the bright side," Percy said, "both Jason and I outrank you, Octavian. So we can both tell you to...
RICK RIORDAN Behold!" Percy shouted. "The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!
RICK RIORDAN Hercules,huh? Percy frowned. "That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn...
RICK RIORDAN I try not to think. It interferes with being nuts -Leo Valdez
RICK RIORDAN I learned hard lessons, and I've taken that lesson and it's helped me become a better busine...
RICK SCOTT The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world - to put on blinders ...
RICK BASS Dark economic clouds are dissipating into an emerging blue sky of opportunity.
RICK PERRY I think all of those things, but certainly the booze really brought out the really unreasonable side...
RICK ALLEN If we can produce more ethanol and bio-diesel to help fuel our vehicles, we will create jobs, boost ...
RICK RENZI Chicago's privatization mania began during Mayor Richard M. Daley's administration, which ra...
RICK PERLSTEIN Since I was a kid I've wanted to be in a Bond movie.
RICK YUNE I'm just a Bolshevik with a laptop.
RICK PERLSTEIN Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future g...
RICK PERRY I got a very late start at fatherhood. I'm a late bloomer in general. It took me seven years to ...
RICK YANCEY I love that we are bringing the flavors of Frontera to Los Angeles. I think we can only add to the b...
RICK BAYLESS There's places where a secure fence will work, and that strategic type fencing will work. But th...
RICK PERRY Um," Grover said. "Percy?"
"Yeah?"
"I thought you'd want to know."
"Yeah?"
"Cerb...
RICK RIORDAN We ought to be bragging about Florida!
RICK SCOTT It's a brave new world. I'm 42 years old. I certainly wasn't out in high school.
RICK MERCER Back when I was 16, when I should have been doing normal high school things, I availed myself of my ...
RICK PERLSTEIN Oh, come on!’ Percy complained. ‘I get a little nosebleed and I wake up the entire earth? That�...
RICK RIORDAN You can keep watch, in case – you know, the lake decides to attack us or something." - Leo Valdez
RICK RIORDAN I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.
RICK MOODY Maybe we should shut Wall Street down for 24 hours, see how everybody who blames Wall Street for eve...
RICK SANTELLI He hated being filled with terror. It was embarrassing.
RICK RIORDAN Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally emba...
RICK RIORDAN I’ve met plenty of embarrassing parents, but Kronos, the evil Titan Lord who wanted to destroy Wes...
RICK RIORDAN Wow," Thalia muttered. "Apollo is hot."
"He's the sun god," I said.
"That's not what I me...
RICK RIORDAN I wanted to argue but I found I couldn't. Athena was pretty darn smart.
RICK RIORDAN There is always a way for those clever enough to find it.
RICK RIORDAN When Athena falls in love, it's purely intellectual. It's a meeting of minds. The purest kind of lov...
RICK RIORDAN Headache!" Zeus bellowed. "Bad. bad headache!"
As if to prove his point, the lord of the univer...
RICK RIORDAN your loved ones have been used to lure you into Kronos's traps. Your fatal flaw is personal loyalty ...
RICK RIORDAN Wisdom's daughter walks alone.
That didn't just mean without other people, Annabeth realized. I...
RICK RIORDAN The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation," she said. "Evil is easy to fight. ...
RICK RIORDAN People usually asked her if she had a belly button. Of course she had a belly button. She couldn't e...
RICK RIORDAN Athena stood in the middle of the road with her arms crossed and a look on her face that made me thi...
RICK RIORDAN Athena called, "Annabeth Chase, my own daughter."
Annabeth squeezed my arm, then walked forward...
RICK RIORDAN I've been waiting a long time for a quest, seaweed brain," she said. "Athena is no fan of Poseidon, ...
RICK RIORDAN She studied me with concern. She touched the new streak of gray in my hair that matched hers exactly...
RICK RIORDAN There is always a way out for those clever enough to find it.
RICK RIORDAN The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never...
RICK RIORDAN Not knowing is half the fun," Aphrodite said, "Exquisitely painful isn't it? Not being sure who you ...
RICK RIORDAN Annabeth gripped the hilt of her dagger. “A bounty on our heads . . . as if we didn’t attract en...
RICK RIORDAN The cord, a familiar voice said. Remember your lifeline, dummy!
Suddenly there was a tug in my ...
RICK RIORDAN You sneaked into my cabin?”
Annabeth rolled her eyes. “Percy, you’ll be seventeen in two ...
RICK RIORDAN I learned a long time ago: Never bet against Annabeth.
RICK RIORDAN Hoover Dam," Thalia said. "It's huge."
We stood at the river's edge, looking up at a curve of c...
RICK RIORDAN And,” Annabeth continued, “it reminds me how long we’ve known each other. We were twelve RICK RIORDAN He had no idea where the stereotype of dumb giggly blondes came from. Ever since he'd met Annabeth a...
RICK RIORDAN I could have killed you.”
“Or I could have killed you,” Percy said.
Jason shrugged....
RICK RIORDAN I'm Dylan. I'm so cool. I want to date myself, but I don't know how! You want to date me instead? Yo...
RICK RIORDAN Argh!" Thalia pushed me, and a shock went through my body that blew me backward ten feet into the wa...
RICK RIORDAN This is Annabeth,” Jason said. “Uh, normally she doesn't judo-flip people.
RICK RIORDAN You drool when you sleep.
RICK RIORDAN Hey, can I see that sword you were using?"
I showed him Riptide, and explained how it turned fr...
RICK RIORDAN I'm calm," Rachel insisted. "Every time I'm around you, some monsters attack us. What's to be nervou...
RICK RIORDAN Remind me again-why do you hate me so much?"
I don't hate you."
Could've foole...
RICK RIORDAN Leo: Rainbows. Very macho.
Annabeth: Butch is our best equestrian, he gets along great with the...
RICK RIORDAN It's okay,” he said. “We're together.” He didn't say you're okay, or we're alive...
RICK RIORDAN Monkey bar," Annabeth said. "I'm great at these." She leaped onto to the first rung and start swingi...
RICK RIORDAN She raised an eyebrow. "You got something to say to me, Seaweed Brain?"
You'd probably ki...
RICK RIORDAN Once she was gone, I knelt next to Annabeth and felt her forehead. She was still burning up.
"Y...
RICK RIORDAN Why can't you place a blessing like that on us?" I asked.
"It only works on wild animals....
RICK RIORDAN Percy: Don't I get a kiss for luck? It's kind of a tradition, right?
Annabeth: Come back alive,...
RICK RIORDAN You are okay?" he asked. "Not eaten by monsters?"
"Not even a little bit." I showed him that I ...
RICK RIORDAN What if it lines up like it did in the Trojan War ... Athena versus Poseidon?"
"I don't know. B...
RICK RIORDAN The real story of the Fleece: there were these two children of Zeus, Cadmus and Europa, okay? They w...
RICK RIORDAN A telkhine was hunched over a console, but he was so involved with his work, he didn't notice us. He...
RICK RIORDAN Percy (to Annabeth): If I was going to pick one person in the world to reattach my head, I'd pick yo...
RICK RIORDAN Dreams like a podcast,
Downloading truth in my ears.
They tell me cool stuff."
"Apoll...
RICK RIORDAN Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderf...
RICK RIORDAN It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.
RICK RIORDAN What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us. You're beating plowshares into swords, Vos...
RICK YANCEY Rachel: You're a half-blood, too?
Annabeth: Shhh! Just announce it to the world, how about?
RICK RIORDAN I turned to Dionysus. "You cured him?"
"Madness is my specialty. It was quite simple."
"Bu...
RICK RIORDAN My name is Percy Jackson.
I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding stude...
RICK RIORDAN Hermes gazed up at the stars. "My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons...
RICK RIORDAN Hermes smiled. "I knew a boy once ... oh, younger than you by far. A mere baby, really."
Her...
RICK RIORDAN It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius for inv...
RICK RIORDAN Like water leaking through a dam," said Piper.
"Yeah," smiled Percy. "We've got a dam hole." RICK RIORDAN I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mor...
RICK RIORDAN You’re not the only one,” he says through gritted teeth. “My twelve-year-old sister died in my...
RICK YANCEY A hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve.
RICK RIORDAN Very slowly using two fingers, Annabeth drew her dagger. Instead of dropping it, she tossed it as fa...
RICK RIORDAN I said hello to the poodle.
RICK RIORDAN Nico, you can do this," Jason said. "It might be embarrassing, but it's for the scepter."
RICK RIORDAN Love is on every side, Cupid said. And no one's side. Don't ask what Love can do for you.<...
RICK RIORDAN Is this guy Love or Death?" Jason growled.
Ask your friends, Cupid said. Frank,...
RICK RIORDAN Images flashed through his mind. He saw Nico and his sister on a snowy cliff in Maine, Percy Jackson...
RICK RIORDAN You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats th...
RICK RIORDAN Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.
RICK RIORDAN The real world is where the monsters are.
RICK RIORDAN It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.
RICK RIORDAN I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows- slow, dumb, and bright red.
RICK RIORDAN We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again.
RICK RIORDAN Hades raised an eyebrow. When he sat forward in his throne, shadowy faces appeared in the folds of h...
RICK RIORDAN The main courtyard was filled with warriors - mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human b...
RICK RIORDAN She whirled when the monster was almost on top of her. I thought the thing in her hands was an umbre...
RICK RIORDAN Leo,” Hazel gasped, “I can’t—my arms—”
“Hazel,” he said. “Do you trust me?”...
RICK RIORDAN Yours in demigodishness, and all that. Peace out!
RICK RIORDAN She held up her calloused, grimy fingers. Leo couldn't help thinking there was nothing hotter than a...
RICK RIORDAN Tantalus made a wild grab, but the marshmallow committed suicide, diving into the flames.
RICK RIORDAN Everyone thinks you've been kidnapped," he said. "We've been scouring the ship. When Coach Hedge fin...
RICK RIORDAN Huh," Leo said. "Well, if you ever get off this island and want a job, let me know. You're not a tot...
RICK RIORDAN Um...is that thing tame?" Frank said.
The horse whinnied angrily.
"I don't think so...
RICK RIORDAN Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Tyson pounding the Earthborn into the ground like a game of wha...
RICK RIORDAN Frank imitated the voice of Vitellius: 'They're wimps! Back in my day, we died all the time, and we ...
RICK RIORDAN He [Death] pulled a pure-black iPad from thin air. Death tapped the screen a few times and all Frank...
RICK RIORDAN Just his luck he was related to this grubby old dude. He hoped all sons of Neptune didn't share the ...
RICK RIORDAN Look," Percy continued, "I know I'm new here. I know you guys don't like to mention the massacre in ...
RICK RIORDAN Part of their problem was Percy. He fought like a demon, whirling through the defender's ranks in a ...
RICK RIORDAN Juno: "All roads lead there child. You should know that."
Percy: "Detention?
RICK RIORDAN They all ordered massive plates of eggs, pancakes, and reindeer sausage, though Frank looked a littl...
RICK RIORDAN