Randy Pausch Quotes
I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
Quotes to Explore
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.
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Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy and national security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.
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It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
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I had to deal with being somewhat of an outcast because it's not socially acceptable to be a struggling musician. There have been times where I've felt sorry for the person I was dating. I felt she deserved better.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills.
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Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.
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You have to trust your government. Don't let every scar, every wart, every hiccup condemn the whole body.
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It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
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I know, as an actor, you have to negotiate, but I can't handle the whole idea that art and commerce are synonymous. It drives me nuts.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime.
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Superwoman is more of a performer, which Lilly isn't. Having said that, I guess both of them are completely over the top, dramatic and full of energy.
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People assume that because I'm a celebrity and have this platform that I always know what I'm talking about. I guess I don't always know what I'm talking about because I'm a kid who's trying to figure it out amid all the chaos of the world at large, and also the chaos of having this voice and responsibility. At the same time, this voice and responsibility has been the biggest blessing because I'm able to create change just by posting something on Instagram. That's really amazing. I can't believe that I get to have that megaphone and I get to decide how to use it.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High heels are a complete invention - an extravagance. They're far from natural, but it's the impracticality that I adore. I prefer the useless to the useful, the sophisticated to the natural.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
