Ric Ocasek (Richard Theodore Otcasek) Quotes
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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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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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Using a service such as Chegg.com, students can save on average more than $600 a year when they rent textbooks over purchasing them.
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It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.
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We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.
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I just believe strongly that anybody who wants to pursue additional education after high school ought to be given that chance.
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I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.
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Give me liberty or give me a bran muffin!
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Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed.
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I eat a salad every single day. I also have been doing the juice 'thing' after every workout, and I try to drink a half-gallon of water a day.
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Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.
