Randy Pausch Quotes
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Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
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Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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Marriage has made me safer.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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I'm a melancholy person. It's how I'm always going to be.
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Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
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The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
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Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.
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In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.
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My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.
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My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
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I really don't know life without wrestling.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
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There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.
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I have the longing that all writers have for new ears to pour my words into.
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Standing knee deep in a river and dying of thirst.
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Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.
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The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
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I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.
