Randy Pausch Quotes
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I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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Well, as I understand it, the main supporters are beer companies and the pharmaceutical companies. I'd like them to show me the dead bodies from marijuana. But they can't because there aren't any.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.
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Jon Jones, grow up, bud. We're going to fight regardless of how you feel. And when we do, and I'm cutting the line, and you might as well pull the guard because I'm taking you down.
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There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.
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Citizens United opened a door that's frustrated anyone who's looking.
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'Breakfast at Tiffany's' isn't a great movie because Audrey Hepburn is brilliant and everyone else isn't. It's a great movie because everybody is fascinating, and she is at the center of it being amazing.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
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It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.
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The last album, 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run.' I was really proud of, but then I didn't actually know whether it was going to come out on any label at all. So I didn't know if anyone was going to hear it. Then of course we ended up doing another EP after that called 'Closer.'
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I have a personal issue with Shakespeare. When I first encountered him, he made me feel thick. Well, not him, but the productions I saw.
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I never, in all my life, took any mean advantage of an enemy.
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I want your most vital organ. I want it to be mine.
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American hunting is quite different from English hunting because we don't hunt to kill. Even if I wanted to kill a fox, I couldn't. They're too smart and they have too many ways to escape me, whereas they don't in England.
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If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.
