Ric Ocasek (Richard Theodore Otcasek) Quotes
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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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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We, as a people, we have a strong need to categorize everything. We put labels on everything and it's a totally understandable need because we are animals and we need to understand order and where to fit in.
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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I'm the first to admit that there's something unnatural... something unseemly... about rock stars mounting the pulpit and preaching at presidents, and then disappearing to their villas in the South of France. Talk about a fish out of water. It was weird enough when Jesse Helms showed up at a U2 concert... but this is really weird, isn't it?
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The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
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When I was 20, I moved up to Boston with my girlfriend, who's now my wife. She went to grad school, and I met a bunch of cool friends there.
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People are strange. We're all morticians. Hey, what's on TV?
