Ric Ocasek (Richard Theodore Otcasek) Quotes
Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
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People my age, we would hear from our parents and grandparents who were raised in Detroit about how great this city was from 1900 to the '60s.
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I feel the only way I can survive is to spend a lot of time writing songs. I have to have incredible, killer songs that also are hits, or I just don't have a chance.
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When you're young, you're stupid.
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I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
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I'm a huge Wonder Woman fan - I have about 12 coffee mugs at home!
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To read too many books is harmful.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
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I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.
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In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.
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I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.
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When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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The worst thing about the miracle of modern communications is the Pavlovian pressure it places upon everyone to communicate whenever a bell rings.
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With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.
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In ways I don't entirely have the words for, an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down.
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Among the words that can be all things to all men, the word 'race' has a fair claim to being the most common, most ambiguous and most explosive. No one today would deny that it is one of the great catchwords about which ink and blood are spilled in reckless quantities. Yet no agreement seems to exist about what race means.
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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
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Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.
