Ric Ocasek Quotes

People sometimes say that bands sound like The Cars, but when I hear it I don't know if they do or not.

Ric Ocasek

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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PeopleKnowSometimesSaySound

Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to the 9/11 Commission members for their valuable service and important recommendations to improve homeland security.

Jim Ramstad

GratitudeServiceSecurityImportant

Back in the day, if someone at the record label didn't care or like your music, it never got to the public. It just got shelved.

Jennifer Holliday

MusicDayCareSomeoneBackNever

I don't have anybody living around me who has much of a sense of what I do. That's exactly what I like.

John Edgar Wideman

MeLivingSenseWhoLikeMuch

Instead of the traditional emphasis on the sanctity of life, bioethics began to stress the quality of life, meaning that many damaged humans, young and old, don't qualify for personhood because their lives have lost value.

John Leo

LifeQualityStressValueMeaning

A good journalist is modest; his only job is simple: to decide what counts as news.

Michael Ignatieff

GoodSimpleJobNewsDecideOnly

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

Jean de La Fontaine

MottoManDieSufferRatherThan

I don't know if likeable, pleasant characters have enough conflict for me to want to do them. I admire those people, but I've never been that kind of screen presence who can do nothing. I need to do something.

Michael Douglas

PeopleMeConflictEnoughKnowKind

People in California don't live in a place so much as they do a condition.

John Sandford

LivePeoplePlaceCaliforniaMuch

I'm pleased that some economists and sociologists are beginning to talk about, for example, alternative measures of human well-being - alternative, that is, to GDP, on which the world runs.

John Sulston

BeginningWorldWell-BeingTalkSome

If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.

Stephen Sondheim

TimeSongStorySpeechTryingYou

My preparation for roles are less about the character's profession than who they are, what their dreams are, and in what way are they childish.

Stellan Skarsgard

DreamsCharacterPreparationWayWho

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.

Robert Baden-Powell

LearnCreatingDesireBoyHimself

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