Ric Ocasek (Richard Theodore Otcasek) Quotes
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Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.
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If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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Guys like Clyde McPhatter used to sing their tail ends off!
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.
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No adultery is bloodless.
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I guess I'm bothered by how fans react to certain things and how they're interested in certain things over true talent. I've always appreciated talent over everything else.
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Like many people, I had the powerful experience of being raised on Dr. Seuss, then becoming a parent and revisiting him with my own children. That multigenerational experience around his work is very meaningful.
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The mechanical mind has a passion for control - of everything except itself. Beyond the control it has won over the forces of nature it would now win control over the forces of society of stating the problem and producing the solution, with social machinery to correspond.
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I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path, certainty always in God. For me God is certainty in everything. Certainty that everything is good and everything is God.
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I can't stress the importance of working hard enough, work on all aspects of your game. If you does that and you have the ability, you'll come through.
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Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.
