Randy Pausch Quotes
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
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I don't feel closeted.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.
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One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.
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The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches. What they mistake for thought is simply a repetition of what they have heard. My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
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One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.
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If I was in charge, I'd keep doing The Go-Go's forever, but it's a band, so everyone has their say.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
