Randy Pausch Quotes
I'm a professor. I know that people in research labs can do miraculous things if they're given the resources.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
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The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
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I have been fighting climate change for two decades, and people often ask me how I remain hopeful in the face of extreme weather and grim forecasts. The answer is simple: I see countless solutions spreading across the nation and across the world. But we need more investment.
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People are totally overusing LOL and a wink - and I'm very guilty of using the wink - that's probably my favourite emoticon to use because 'I'm being sarcastic, don't misinterpret; don't misconstrue; I'm just kidding.' Again, for as many benefits as it has, also picking up the phone and having a conversation speaks volumes.
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It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.
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People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.
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I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.
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Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
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I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.
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So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country.
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Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?
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The people in the villages had turned in on themselves. You can understand it. When you have a bad day on the field, what do you do? Talk to your teammates.
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If you meet me, you might not get to know me. If you hear my music? You'll get to know me.
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I wouldn't recommend being a musician to anyone. It's not glamorous. It's a lot of being dirty, not eating, playing for five people and one of them is the bartender.
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I think music should be experienced by people all ages.
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I've seen a couple white girls coming to my concerts wearing head wraps, and I think they look so cute. It's kind of sad to see that people are really into separation, trying to separate everybody and making a clear division of 'us against you,' even with fashion. That sucks. It's not the way the world is supposed to be.
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Poor people will do almost anything to avoid problems. They see a challenge and they run...the secret to success, my friends, is not to try to avoid or get rid of or shrink from your problems; the secret is to grow yourself so that you are bigger than your problems.
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I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.
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The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.
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I consider myself a significant supporter of any candidate I work for, and I am certainly generous, I think, with my own funds.
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The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.
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I'm a professor. I know that people in research labs can do miraculous things if they're given the resources.
