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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I'm shedding off the old me and I'm reborn as the new me - it's great!
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I've never done stand-up; I came via small-scale touring theatre, through the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, then I got employed on that as an actor who had a humorous sensibility.
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People think floating should be the easiest and happiest time for a company, but it's actually really hard. We were meant to think we'd won - we'd gone public and could go on to new things. But we were only just getting started.
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I'm drinking lots of rum and popping pinks and greys.
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I'm a big Ping-Pong addict. I love it.
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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.
