Ric Ocasek (Richard Theodore Otcasek) Quotes

I'm not proud of the lyrics to 'Shake It Up.'

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• There's a spirit of Latina women in all of my work, in the love of the body and the strong sense of self.

  

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• Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.

  

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• When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.

  

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• Greetings and death to our enemies.

  

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• Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.

  

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• There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.

  

  Inga Cadranel
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• The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
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• I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's real when it comes to AIDS.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
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• Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.

  

  Adam Green
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• Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.

  

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• I found it more challenging to act in a small scene, especially if it has no dialogue and if it is a close-up with only expressions.

  

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• People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

  

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• I think I'm like a free spirit.

  

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• You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

  

  Dan Quayle
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• It's a bit weird, because I don't really know what people expect or think being political is; I just don't get it. What am I supposed to do as a pop star-stroke-revolutionary? Get up and put my balaclava on, go to the grocery store and then invent some Google viruses, and then go to rob a bank to fund my revolution on YouTube?

  

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• Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.

  

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• I was always the front man for what I was doing from when I was 6.

  

  John Roger Stephens

• Too often, it seems, conservatives have scorned experts as incompetent, biased, or otherwise worth ignoring because they came up with answers that didn't fit their politically desired answer. Often, they proclaim experts have a liberal bias. Of course, plenty of Democrats have voted for conservative ideas, but that is beside the point.

  

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• I kept extensions in until I finished high school. Although, once I got to college, that's when it all started to shift. I think it was just growing up and moving to New York, where I saw so many different people, vibes, and looks, and everyone really owned it. That led me to feel more free, take more risks, and go back into my natural hair.

  

  Jillian Hervey
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• I met Peter O'Toole for the first time at Dad's memorial service because my Dad didn't hang around with people like that when we were around. We didn't grow up with Richard Burton coming around to tea.

  

  Jared Harris
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• The giving up of personality traits, well-established patterns of behavior, ideologies, and even whole life styles...these are major forms of giving up that are required if one is to travel very far on the journey of life.

  

  M. Scott Peck
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• I'm not proud of the lyrics to 'Shake It Up.'

  

  Ric Ocasek The Cars
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