Ric Ocasek (Richard Theodore Otcasek) Quotes
I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.
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And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.
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My dream date is a tall, dark, handsome, blue eyed man with a bubble butt who will whisk me away to Paris in a hot air balloon to wine me, dine me and.
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When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.
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I'm not a sun person.
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Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that.
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It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.
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We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.
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I think it was absolutely a mistake for President Obama and Harry Reid to force a government shutdown.
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When I was a child, I felt at times that I had been born into an insane asylum, that much of human life appeared to be an insane asylum. It was bewildering.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
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If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.
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I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
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You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
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I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.'
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I grew up watching old black and white movies where Marlene Dietrich or Jean Harlow would go walking down some cobblestone street in ripped stockings and head into some smoky boite and sing for a pathetic living. That's so what I wanted to be.
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I always watch Dean Martin's show... just to see if he falls down.
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And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say.
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You're not from Puerto Rico, so you should say Puerto Rico like all the other people from the place that you come from.
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I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.
