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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I like going to rifle and pistol clubs and joining them in target shooting. I also share the same respect for individual initiative and love of family.
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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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Most nights I end up wearing a wife beater T-shirt and boxers.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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The premise of 'Secret Coders' is reminiscent of 'Harry Potter.' An intrepid band of tweens stumbles upon a secret school, only instead of teaching magic, the school teaches coding.
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I remember dealing with bullies in high school and being put down because I was different.
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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.
