Ric Ocasek Quotes

I didn't feel like gymnastics were part of The Cars. I certainly philosophically didn't want to prod the audience to react to anything. To me, it was more like negative theater. We didn't really talk to the audience. I didn't see that being a part of this band.

Ric Ocasek

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
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  • Birth: March 23, 1949

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We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

John F. Kennedy

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I mean, I enjoy my work as an actor. But to make a difference in people's lives through advocacy and through supporting research - that's the kind of privilege that few people will get, and it's certainly bigger than being on TV every Thursday for half an hour.

Michael J. Fox

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The choice is not normally between the north and south. It might be between Britain and Europe.

John Prescott

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I think probably I've been influenced by Chekhov and Walt Disney, if you see what I mean.

Tom Stoppard

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When I'm writing a novel, I'm usually just trying to write about things that are interesting to me.

Ruth Ozeki

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I prance around and dance by myself to hip-hop songs in the mirror.

Liz Phair

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When you're a little kid, you have nerve. I'd walk right up to whoever was recording and say, 'Hey, dude, what's the lick of the week?'

Dimebag Darrell

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These are some of the things for which we believe the American people owe no little gratitude to the Dutch; and these are the things for which today, speaking in the name of the American people, we venture to express their heartfelt thanks.

Seth Low

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The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Leon Uris

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Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad they're very very naughty.

Kenneth Branagh

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I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, 'Who's that?' But this got me started in acting.

James Stewart

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