Randy Pausch Quotes
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.
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There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.
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My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.
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Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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Everything we do, even the slightest thing we do, can have a ripple effect and repercussions that emanate. If you throw a pebble into the water on one side of the ocean, it can create a tidal wave on the other side.
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I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.
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I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
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I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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I always try to remain aware that what affects others affects me, too.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.
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I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday.
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Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!
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My one thing is respect. I don't care about anything else. You should respect everyone around you - the people who work for you, peers. Be classy.
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Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.
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I wouldn't say I was a rebel as such, but I certainly wasn't right at school.
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Respect authority while questioning it.
