Ric Ocasek (Richard Theodore Otcasek) Quotes
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The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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One school invited me down, as two pupils had come out, and the headmaster didn't know what to do about it. I said, 'How many students here are gay?' and he said, 'Just these two.' Clearly not. 'How many gay members of staff have you got?' He had no idea. And this was a concerned man.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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We didn't realize there were that many boy bands until we started touring in Europe. I don't think we were ever affected by it since a lot of the groups in Europe didn't really sing live, but we did and would perform a cappella as well.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.
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I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They'll read anything.
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The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries.
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The Republicans are coming - make nice.
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When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.
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Everybody has a smartphone; everyone is a reporter.
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You have to change your life for yourself, and it's about the fun of getting there - sitting in the tour van, breaking down on the side of the road, you know, having a laugh with the guys in the band, making mistakes with nobody watching.
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But He Himself hath sealed your sufferings, and their thus saying condemns God, and His sealing condemns them.
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Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer to you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen.
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When I was a child, I had wax in my ears. Dad didn't take me to the doctor, he used me as a night light.
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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There's more to light than the opposite of dark.
