Randy Pausch Quotes
Get a feedback loop and listen to it. … When people give you feedback, cherish it and use it.
Quotes to Explore
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else – when you want to be another person.
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I miss my horse. He's in Los Angeles.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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I fell from the sky. I'm a parachutist, and I missed my mark.
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The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
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I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.
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English people are always surprised I'm English.
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I don't fix anybody, because I don't think anybody's broken. I think what people have are patterns, and those can be changed. People quickly understand that what's controlling their thoughts and emotions are their values and rules, and they learn how to shift those.
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There are two kinds of people - those who don't do what they want to do, so they write down in a diary about what they haven't done, and those who are too busy to write about it because they're out doing it!
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The bigger you become of a celebrity, the bigger the expectations, the pressure on you - to make change, to say what people want, to target the people they want to target. Fame is toxic; it is quite toxic.
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When I was 12, I played Dorothy in my community theatre production of 'The Wizard of Oz,' and it was very critically hailed by my school paper!
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Get a feedback loop and listen to it. … When people give you feedback, cherish it and use it.
