"I've learned there's nothing wrong with being a little fussy. I used to pride myself on being low-maintenance - I wore it like a badge of honor."

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Source : Sterling Hayden (2015). “Wanderer”, p.43, Pickle Partners Publishing

Becki Newton

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“I love it when a woman is wearing Red Lipstick, and her hair is combed back, so sensual and confident.”
“I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you'd find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.”
“It is much easier to make intellectual messes than it is to clarify complicated issues, especially when real solutions would challenge the status quo and require much careful thought across many fields of knowledge. Problems of climatic change, biotic impoverishment, population growth, and the choices to be made by various technologies and the transition to a sustainable and decent society with an economy that works over the long-term are difficult, complex, and intertwined problems with many possible answers.”

Source : David W. Orr (2012). “The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror”, p.53, Island Press
“The Birth-chart has to be understood as the archetype or seed-pattern of one's individual being - as the 'symbolic' form of one's individuality, and therefore also of one's destiny, for the two are identical.”
“I always promised myself that if I was in position to be successful, I wouldn't take it for granted, because I know in the past how hard I've worked.”
“You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?'”
“If you want something you just have to see it and believe in it and not take no for an answer.”

Source : "Rick Springfield: The Journey Is Never Over". Interview with Howard Kerbel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2014.
“I'm surrounded by good people. That's the measure of a good life. All the rest is flotsam.”

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