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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There's no way I would have thought I would have had the career that I did and the longevity. Absolutely no idea.
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I've chosen to treat my life more like a party than something to stress about.
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People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.
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One of the things I've learned about being president is that we'll work on issues for long periods of time, sometimes in obscurity.
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I think there are a lot of factors going into an election. I think the bottom line is - is that Donald Trump is gonna be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States of America. And it's not necessarily profitable to sort of try to untangle all the different factors that went into it.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
