Randy Pausch Quotes
Fuel your kids' dreams. Sometimes, that means letting them stay up past their bedtimes.
Quotes to Explore
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
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Mike Pence not only knows the Capitol. He knows the players in the House and the Senate. He knows how the committee system works. But he also knows all the governors. And so that really brings a unique talent to the picture.
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Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the requirements for our military. We must do it adequately and promptly, and the administration is doing neither.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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There's an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.
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Life started getting good when I started making money.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes.
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In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the rights of believers.
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It's so hard for me to kind of fall in love with comedy, but if something comes my way... I mean, I loved 'Weird,' I thought that was a really fun character.
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No one is going to remember a second-place team.
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If I am looking at my work as an actor after having directed, I'm able to look at things in a much more technical way. There's no question about that.
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You can't ignore reality. You won't wake up one morning and find that the Arabs of Umm al-Faham have become part of Palestine and are no longer in Israel.
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Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.
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Fuel your kids' dreams. Sometimes, that means letting them stay up past their bedtimes.
