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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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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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 was a gymnast when I was little, like 8, 9, 10.
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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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Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
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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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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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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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If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.
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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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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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Half the time, people will be abusing me on Twitter, and half the time, somebody will be praising me. So either it will go to my head, or I will take it to my heart. So better I stay away from it.
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When the time comes to raise rates, I do think there will be some benefits that flow through to savers.
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When you're young, you don't think about your career or your future - you perform because you love it.
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To make a couple putts to win the Masters is just an amazing feeling.
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I've said my piece. My time now is entirely focused on family.
