Ric Ocasek (Richard Theodore Otcasek) Quotes
People tell me all the time that I look forbidding or aloof. That doesn't bother me much - I am fairly private, withdrawn, and... distant, I guess. But, um, I think that's okay.
Ric Ocasek
The Cars
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He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.
Walter Isaacson
We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
Zoltan Kodaly
In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.
Warren Spector
I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
Aaron Douglas
Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
Joanne Rowling
One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
Ed Belfour
So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
Wayne Rooney
What So Not used to be a lot more dance-y, and now it's becoming a lot more melodic. Flume has always had that melodic thing, but it's starting to become a bit heavier, so it's just difficult to navigate between the two.
Flume
If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
Damian Loeb
I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
B. B. King
America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief.
P. J. O'Rourke
I had a picture-perfect childhood.
Kelly Ripa
I just think it's quite remarkable that everyone says they want to add more commentary to their news pages. In some ways, I think, 'Well, how is that even possible?' It seems sometimes that that's all that there is.
Dana Perino
I've always had service-industry jobs, because those were the easiest to quit or take time off from.
Wesley Schultz
The Lumineers
Always do what's best for you. It'll upset some people, but those who truly love you will always understand.
Katrina Mayer
Strange, isn't it, that it's always more difficult to talk people out of killing each other than into it?
S. M. Stirling
People tell me all the time that I look forbidding or aloof. That doesn't bother me much - I am fairly private, withdrawn, and... distant, I guess. But, um, I think that's okay.
Ric Ocasek
The Cars
