Randy Pausch Quotes
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It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.
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Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.
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'The View' was so much fun. So much fun because the audience was 85-percent fans that wanted to be there celebrating 'One Life to Live' and the other 15 percent were crew members from 'One Life to Live'. It was just really, really wonderful and the clips were wonderful.
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Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
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Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.
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I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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There's nothing like simple spicy egg bhurji.
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You can ask anyone who knows me, I've never said a racist or prejudiced thing in my life.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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The yogi should meditate on a firm seat, one that is clean - untainted by dirt or unspiritual vibrations of others. The thought or life force emanating from an individual saturates the objects he uses and his dwelling.
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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
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New experiences give you new perspectives on life.
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There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.
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None of us is quite as Christlike as we know we should be.
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We can trust our doctors to be professional, to minister equally to their patients without regard to their political or religious beliefs. But we can no longer trust our professors to do the same.
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I have been very fortunate since 'Ice Age' to make movies that somehow charm audiences. I think that the key to it for me has been coming up with the right ideas but, more importantly, choosing the right collaborators and artists to execute those ideas.
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When I hear the word 'stream' uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the contemporary novel. And besides, it isn't new, it is far from the dernier cri. Shakespeare used it continually, much too much in my opinion, and there's Tristram Shandy, not to mention the Agamemnon.
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The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.
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There's nothing about my life that I would have changed.