Randy Pausch Quotes
It's hard to raise awareness of pancreatic cancer - people who get it don't live long enough.
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I turned down a lot of films.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
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One of the biggest challenges for the MENA region is unemployment coupled with high population growth rates. The World Bank is committed to supporting infrastructure projects that will help with job creation across the region.
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I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.
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I get hugs all the time from strangers. I do believe that people can feel your persona when you perform live, but it is one of the nicest things if you can translate that on your records.
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.
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My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.
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I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world... If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers.
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Taste is the feminine of genius.
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I definitely still have my hand in acting. I don't think I would be able to walk away from it. It's my passion.
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I've always had a very clear vision of what I wanted to do.
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The reason I wanted to start directing is that as an actor I felt I came into a job late. There's a whole team of people who have been working on it for months before you start. You have this really intense period of filming and then you leave it, knowing that the director will work on it for another few months.
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It's hard to raise awareness of pancreatic cancer - people who get it don't live long enough.
