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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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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Getting to have a higher purpose other than just being successful is very necessary for me.
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Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; With them forgive yourself.
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I think we're always doing something for teenagers and youngsters because BTS originally performed itself as a socially conscious band. We always wanted to sell our performances like we did with our debut.
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But if the cow is purple, you'd notice it, OK? The thing that's going to decide what gets talked about, what gets done, what gets changed, what gets purchased, what gets built is, is it remarkable? And remarkable's a really cool word 'cause we think it just means neat, but it also means worth making a remark about, and that is the essence of where idea diffusion is going.
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I could actually be somebody that, if you showed me new gun-control legislation could help solve this problem, I might actually be able to support something like that.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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.
