Randy Pausch Quotes
Make clear that people understand what your circumstances are. And looking for pity - that's a mistake.
Quotes to Explore
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Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.
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Whether you breach the Fourth Amendment 20 percent of the time or 100 percent of the time, it's still not the point. The point is whether or not you still collect millions of people's information with a single warrant.
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I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
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There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
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A fashion show is like a 10-minute play, but there's all this anticipation; Everyone arriving, finding their seats, then there's 10 minutes of people walking past and clothes and music, then the whole thing is finished.
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When you work on a movie, especially an independent movie, it's a lot of work to make it! It's not just our job as actors - so many people are working so hard, and even the littlest movie takes a lot of work.
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It's important that people come see our show, because we are performers. We wanted people to see that.
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Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.
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I always joke with people that having nephews is the best birth control there is.
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Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.
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Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
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You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.
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A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the 'popular' choice.
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I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.
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As an old-time New Yorker, it's not that I miss the '70s and '80s or whatever. I miss the fact that there was a certain kind of energy that exists when people can live for nothing.
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I meet an enormous number of incredible people all the time, people I find very inspiring, and I'm very busy.
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I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!
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Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I was.
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I can't tell you how many 30-year-old dudes believe they should be senator or president. Women, we're like, 'Well, maybe after ten years of working...' No. Just run for the office you want to run for and run on the issue you want to fix.
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People in Seville are very happy, the lifestyle here is very relaxed, you can walk everywhere; it's very easy.
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You learn early as an actor that creating your own material is the only way to have any control.
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Great let me call him, for he conquered me.
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You can only punish your body so long before you're stuck with a horrendous inability to do things you'd previously been able to do.
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Make clear that people understand what your circumstances are. And looking for pity - that's a mistake.
