Ric Ocasek (Richard Theodore Otcasek) Quotes
I've always been a fan of poetry. I grew up with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Beat poets. I really followed that stuff for a while. I just love the way people threw words around like they were painting.
Ric Ocasek
The Cars
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I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.
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It's weird to me to see how different everyone's opinion of beauty is.
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Him they would not harm, Englishmen being, though infidel, yet the race of past District Officers, judges, doctors, men perhaps, in their time, more helpful than otherwise, powerful but mild.
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The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.
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I've always been a fan of poetry. I grew up with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Beat poets. I really followed that stuff for a while. I just love the way people threw words around like they were painting.
Ric Ocasek
The Cars