Ric Ocasek (Richard Theodore Otcasek) Quotes
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
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For me, if I'm just killing time, I play solitaire. I'm also guilty of playing Snood. I like games where I can shoot balls and match colors.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
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It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.
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Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur.
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I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.
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I think, by nature you know, I'm very attracted and I gravitate toward the very strong girl who can watch a ballgame, but who's also extremely feminine.
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I was in Paris, Milan and London from '89 until '91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there's so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry!
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Losing his wealth, his home, the life he had built, killed my father. He didn't die right away; it took four decades of exile to finish him off.
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My family had a habit of collecting creatures that didn't always want to be pets. The first animal I can remember was a Lab named Zoe.
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I've always been a bit of a gypsy.
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'It's very strange,' said Mr. Dick ... 'that I never can get that quite right; I never can make that perfectly clear.'
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People are strange. We're all morticians. Hey, what's on TV?
