Ric Ocasek (Richard Theodore Otcasek) Quotes
The creative part for me is making songs, and that's what I really love the most, and that's what I've always done for every band I've ever had.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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A store is just a collection of content. The Steam store is this very safe, boring entertainment experience. Nobody says, 'I'm going to play the Steam store now.'
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The voice doesn't take a lot of effort now, but in the beginning it was hard to try to find a voice. The one I settled on was just easier to do for a half-hour.
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I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
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Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
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I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.
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L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.
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Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
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It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
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Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.
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I have lots of fans, they are mostly under the age of 12, boys and girls.
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I don't think my daughter wants to see me on the toilet. Lila has seen me nude.
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Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
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In a strange kind of way I know were really popular and probably the biggest band in the country at the moment, but at the same time there is this real cult thing going on.
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We detect light and particles that have traveled billions of light years on their way across the universe to us. During the billions of years of travel, very small effects due to quantum gravity can be amplified to the point that we can detect them.
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Dont expect fame to come overnight. That filtered through to me in my own career. Look at Madonna: shes not the best singer in the world, but shes got where she has through hard work.
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I've been a model for 15 years, and I've been on 'Top Chef' for eight seasons, and before that I had other cooking shows, so I've learned a thing or two about how to camouflage certain areas and how to draw the eye to a preferable area of the body.
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Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to play music that I liked, and even when I was in cover bands when I was a teenager we only played cover tunes that we liked. That was the simple morality that I grew up with.
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The creative part for me is making songs, and that's what I really love the most, and that's what I've always done for every band I've ever had.
