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As I've gotten older, I realize how important my fans are and that I'm here because of them and not the other way around. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#because #fans #gotten #here #how

When I went to the Olympics, I had every intention of shaving the mustache off, but I realized I was getting so many comments about it - and everybody was talking about it - that I decided to keep it. ↗

— Mark Spitz

#comments #decided #every #everybody #getting

Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#desire #down #face #go #hard

What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#celebrity #famous #following #i #learned

Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#again #bad #bailed #bailout #bank

The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one candidate whose agenda is squarely within that of the movement and make his or her electoral success a focal point. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#agenda #candidate #choose #did #electoral

The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#additional #already #approved #argument #authorize

To every New Yorker - and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for - I sincerely apologize. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#believed #every #i #i tried #new

You're always searching for the thing to heal you, and I thought therapy would give me that. But it didn't - it just helps you recognize your demons. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#demons #give #give me #heal #helps

It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous to labor for wages, and to accept the condition of hired laborers. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#advantageous #both #civilized #come #condition