Ric Ocasek (Richard Theodore Otcasek) Quotes
I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether it's growing or crumbling.
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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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There are as many ways to help another human being as there are people in need of help. For some, the urgent need is as basic as food and water. For others, it is an opportunity to develop a talent, realize an idea, and reach one's full potential.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.
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I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.
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As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.
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Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.
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If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
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To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.
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On a professional side, you've got a tough problem to fix, Geoff Miller's going to do it, and he's always going to do it to very high standards, and he's always going to be on the side of right. He's always talking about 'what right looks like' - just a phrase he would always use.
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I'm obsessed with Marcus Mumford. I've got to know him recently; he's amazing.
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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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I have a number of vices, one of which is moderation.
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When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.
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When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday.
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The United Nations has long sought the ability to raise revenues in this manner as a means of reducing its reliance on American and other member nations' dues to sustain the UN's operations.
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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
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I grew up in the theater. I began my career at 3. That was the first time I stepped onto a provisional stage.
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In a park, you are not working with studio materials or a flat piece of paper. You have grass and the people and the city and the daylight.
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I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether it's growing or crumbling.
