Randy Pausch Quotes
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
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We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.
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I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
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I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies.
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If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.
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If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that - they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella.
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My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.
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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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I'm never gonna change the skin, right? I'm very proud of what it implies and what it has meant to me... but then again, in Congress, I hope to make my mark as a colleague and as a leader.
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Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.
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I'm not interested in being Franchise Boy.
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I happened to be one of those guys who doesn't play much golf.
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The colossus of World War II seemed to be like a pyramid turned upside down, and for the moment the whole burden of the war rested on the few hundred German fighter pilots on the Channel coast.
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As I've matured as a songwriter, I realize that if it's out there, it's mine.
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I've said my piece. My time now is entirely focused on family.
