Ric Ocasek (Richard Theodore Otcasek) Quotes
They're caught where there's no way out or where you can't see out. What are you going to do about it? I don't have the answer. If I did there would be no insane asylums.
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
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I have, like, 45 celeb crushes at all times - celeb and Instagram crushes. I'm such a creep.
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I'm a big handbag lover and will always have one with me.
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If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it.
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The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.
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It's great if you're funny or if you can dance, but if you are kind and decent, it comes out your pores.
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A well begun is half ended.
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I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
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I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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I grew up really loving old-school horror such as 'Halloween' and 'The Birds.'
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I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.
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The American political scientist Francis Fukuyama has argued that liberal democracies, with their political freedom and economic success, have three important pillars: a strong government, the rule of law, and democratic accountability. I would add a fourth: free markets.
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My characters are not underachievers; they aspire to great things, but they are limited by the world around them.
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I am essentially a recluse who will have very little to do with people wherever he may be. I think that most people only make me nervous - that only by accident, and in extremely small quantities, would I ever be likely to come across people who wouldn't.
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My health is very good.
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For my own health, I thought it was better to eat a plant based diet. I'm going to be 60 soon and I have boundless energy and I feel really good, so I'm all for it.
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It's a big responsibility and great motiviation to be a Mexican fighter who is admired, and I thank God for the support I get from Mexicans on both sides of the border.
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I'm in a really lucky position where people will be interested in whatever I do, but what I do is sing.
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The Nobel Prize is not very important for the winners - they are usually pretty successful people already. But it is valuable as a way of drawing the public's attention to important work in economics.
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As a kid, I always wanted to be an explorer, to go to exotic places and do exotic things.
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Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.
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You know, people come up with formulas who are uncreative. They can't picture something different so they can only go by something that's laid out for them.
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They're caught where there's no way out or where you can't see out. What are you going to do about it? I don't have the answer. If I did there would be no insane asylums.
