Ric Ocasek (Richard Theodore Otcasek) Quotes
Sometimes you want to run away, sometimes you think you do, but you never had a dream like this before and you don't want to ask for more, sometimes you leave a mark before you know the score.
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We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.
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We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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That's everybody's goal, when they come to the league, is to win a Super Bowl. That's the ultimate goal.
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I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back.
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Midi is my hobby.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.
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A lot of people have asked whether acting is in my genes. I don't know if anyone is born to act. And it certainly wasn't pushed on me. It was something I wanted to do.
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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Dream and you shall become.
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I had a happier experience of the city as an actress than I had had as a model.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.
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People don't dream all their lives of escaping the hellish countries they live in and pay their life savings to underworld types for the privilege of being locked up in a freezing, filthy, stinking container ship and hauled like cargo for weeks until they finally arrive in Moscow or Beijing or Baghdad or Kabul. People risk their lives to come here---to New York. The greatest city in the world, where dreams become reality.
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I think there is an element of magic in photography - light, chemistry, precious metals - a certain alchemy. You can wield a camera like a magic wand almost. Murmur the right words and you can conjure up proof of a dream. I believe in wonder. I look for it in my life every day; I find it in the most ordinary things.
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The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.
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If you have a higher reason ... than just to make money... it will bring you longer fulfillment. And it won't feel like work.
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Sometimes you want to run away, sometimes you think you do, but you never had a dream like this before and you don't want to ask for more, sometimes you leave a mark before you know the score.
