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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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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There is one thing I don't understand about Astral Weeks. Of all the records I have ever made that one is definitely not rock. You could throw that record at the wall, take it to music colleges, analyze it to death. Nobody is going to tell me that it is a rock album. Why they keep calling it one I have no idea.
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Clarum et venerabile nomengentibus.
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Of all the movies I've done in my life, the one where I play a crazy awful psycho woman finds me my husband.
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As long as it served his purpose, Mr. Lincoln boldly advocated the right of Secession.
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So capital is in fact borderless; that's the problem. On the other hand capital has to keep borders alive in order for this kind of cross-border trade to happen. So therefore the idea of borderlessness has a performative contradiction within it which has to be kept alive.
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I have always seen Drogba as the example to follow in terms of a centre-forward. He was strong and scored loads of goals, and he was a quality player.
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I spend most of my time at concerts hoping for that one second that the artist looks at me, I look at the artist, and that's when I get to say, 'Thank you.'
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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.
