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 give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
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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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The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area.
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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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Rotten Tomatoes is the best thing that happened to the movie business because it means you have to make good movies.
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I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay.
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But if an actress asks me my opinion, I would tell her there are a million different designers who make faux fur. If you like that look, wear faux fur. If you're doing it on the red carpet, you're doing it for how it looks. Faux fur and real fur look the same on camera.
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Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate.
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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.
