Ric Ocasek (Richard Theodore Otcasek) Quotes
I think bands, when they're on the road, they keep their sanity by developing an internal sense of humor.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
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A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.
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I never left doo wop.
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With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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No access to me, nor my staff, will ever affect what we do to protect consumers of the state of Florida.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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I think beautiful independent films are made, and I think they're as close to what theater can be because they're not loaded with all of the extra stuff. It's human, and it's more organic, but theater is very unique... It's a different connection altogether.
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I wanted to be a ballet teacher.
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I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of a relief!
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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.
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Infidelity is consumption of the soul.
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The word 'guru' is very loaded, so I would never refer to myself that way. I see myself as a teacher.
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Records are very powerful promotional tools to go out and be able to play on the road, but you do have to think about it as a way of sustaining itself at some point.
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I think bands, when they're on the road, they keep their sanity by developing an internal sense of humor.
