Ric Ocasek (Richard Theodore Otcasek) Quotes
The most important thing to a lot of people, is to belong to something that's hip or whatever. To be a part of something that's not society, just a clique.
Ric Ocasek
The Cars
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
Harry Browne
All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
Carl Bernstein
No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.
Garret Dillahunt
I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
Lasse Hallstrom
The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
Daniel Alarcon
Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.
Barbara Kruger
It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.
Harold Hamm
You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less.
Sam Shepard
I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count!
Zoe Kazan
I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.
Malaika Arora Khan
I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York.
Garth Risk Hallberg
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
D. H. Lawrence
'I fly from pleasure,' said the prince, 'because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others.'
Samuel Johnson
I don't look at our society today too much. My focus is still in the past, and part of the reason is because what I do - the wellspring of art, or what I do - l get from the blues. So I listen to the music of a particular period that I'm working on, and I think inside the music is clues to what is happening with the people.
August Wilson
Even as a kid, my memories are of books taking me out of myself.
Oprah Winfrey
The only thing about sports is making sure you don't read the papers too often.
Jerry Reinsdorf
We're all a big hippie family so I got five sisters and a bunch of different mothers. Not really, but my sisters' mothers are all good friends with my mother. We're a big family, 25 people.
Joel Kinnaman
The most important thing to a lot of people, is to belong to something that's hip or whatever. To be a part of something that's not society, just a clique.
Ric Ocasek
The Cars
