Randy Pausch Quotes
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As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
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I just love playing so much, competing so much. You're able to put your losses behind you. One of the greatest attributes a decathlete can have is the ability to forget... to look ahead, not behind.
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Be true to yourself and go with your instincts - don't be somebody you're not just to fit in.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea.
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.
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I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.
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Of course, no one wants to ban the vote. Voting should remain available for sporting and recreational purposes. But certain types of votes clearly should be curtailed - 'assault votes,' for example, in which the only purpose of the vote is to harm others.
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It all started when I was 4. I was watching a lot of 'The Little Mermaid,' and I loved that movie. I was going around the house singing - I wanted to be on Disney and everything; I wanted to be a princess.
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Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.
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I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough.
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I don't care what size you are or how old you are - once you see the results brought to you by regular exercise, you'll wonder how you survived without it.
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I never thought of myself doing period. When you're in your acting classes, and you think about the kind of roles you want to play, it's always 'modern relationship drama'-type things.
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We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old.
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Suning from a management concept and technology point of view isn't simply an appliance company.
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I love Costco.
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!
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March was doing exactly as it should; it had come in like a lamb, now it was going out like a lion.
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Cinema has become a global economy, totally international.
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The last Pan Am Games in 2011 was one of the best experiences in my career. It was the first time women's boxing was in the Pan Am Games and any major games, and I had the opportunity to box in the first women's boxing fight and then went on to win gold.
Mandy Bujold -
An injured lion still wants to roar.
