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.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
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• Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
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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.'

  

  Gabe Newell
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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.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
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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.

  

  Vince Lombardi
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• Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
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• An actor has to embody a role.

  

  Taylor Hackford
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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.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
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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?'

  

  Ian Mckellen
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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.

  

  Sam Kinison
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• L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.

  

  Dakota Johnson
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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.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.

  

  Owen D. Young
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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.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
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• I have lots of fans, they are mostly under the age of 12, boys and girls.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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• I don't think my daughter wants to see me on the toilet. Lila has seen me nude.

  

  Kate Moss
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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.

  

  Pat Gillick
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• My mother was the daughter of a poor schoolteacher - well, that's a tautology - a country schoolteacher.

  

  Peter Carey
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• I don't keep a list of people I want to talk to. It's organic. But I'd like to interview Tom Brady. Someday I'd love to meet Vladimir Putin. I'd ask him how he sees the landscape of the world, what could make it better, how that could be done.

  

  Brian Grazer
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• I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.

  

  Brian Wilson
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• I am so superstitious that I think even discussing this subject is dangerous and will probably bring me terrible luck. Having been raised a Catholic, superstition becomes almost part of your DNA. The challenge is to slowly rid yourself of these little delusions.

  

  Anthony McCarten
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• I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many painters, but I love Francis Bacon the most, and Edward Hopper.

  

  David Lynch The Platters

• 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.

  

  Ric Ocasek The Cars
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