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Ric Ocasek

"Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful."

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"Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful."

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"I quit because I didn't feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game."

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"Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?"

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"In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind."

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"But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back but I wanted very much to go because there's not much of a record of the exploits of the first Negro fighter group."

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"If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance."

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"Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound."

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"If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic."

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"When Hank Jones had his night off, I would get somebody to take my place as intermission pianist and I'd play the show with Ella, so I would get a chance to play with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as well."

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"There's a pretty good chance that you're going to go down when you're on a motorcycle or if you're sky diving or whatever, but that happened before I even got this job, and I haven't sky dived since."

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"One way to express the answer is that it might happen by 'chance'. But 'chance' is just a word expressing ignorance. It means 'determined by some as yet unknown, or unspecified, means'."

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"I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness."
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