Ric Ocasek Quotes

Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.

Ric Ocasek

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I swear and it comes off a little angry, no matter how funny I'm trying to do it. If I use certain words with a certain intensity, it's like 'Whoa whoa whoa, buddy buddy!'

John C. Reilly

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I think tech lives inside of a society that still has a lot of systemic racism and doesn't stop at the boundaries of the tech industry. But neither is it especially exacerbated by being around technology. But it is maybe exacerbated by the irrational decision making of people who are trying to make money.

Stewart Butterfield

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Actors play different characters, so you have to build a new base around each new movie - with few exceptions, most actors don't have a fan base that just follows them around. With musicians, the fan base just goes everywhere they go.

Troy Carter

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You can have the best team in baseball, and if nobody goes through the turnstiles, you've got to shut the doors down.

Tommy Lasorda

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I have had cardiomyopathy, which is a non-coronary condition and is in no way related to diet.

Robert Atkins

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I will be the first black James Bond.

Dhani Jones

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I think that fashion, in general, is a world of super-heightened glamour, and when you talk about super-heightened glamour, the first thing that comes to mind is a drag queen.

Chris March

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Ian Fleming was my cousin, you know. He was in naval intelligence.

Christopher Lee

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I'm just another guy who thinks he's smarter than he is, in a long line of them.

Colin Quinn

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I don't sit down to write a number one hit. I'm not that good at my job - I don't know how to do that.

Brantley Gilbert

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You want to do work that is remembered, you want to be a part of something that's remembered.

Anthony Michael Hall

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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

Aristotle

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