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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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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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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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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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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When you have another actor as your boss, they understand how to communicate easier sometimes than just a writer.
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My father has the most tremendous personality and wonderful looks - he looks like Fredric March.
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If he doesn't respect me he should at least respect the position (of match referee), but he made matters worse for himself with his dismissive and rude attitude.
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I discovered cosplay because I was going to an anime convention and did some research, and found out people dressed up as characters. I made a very badly put-together costume because I felt this desire to dress up.
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Ah, Los Angeles. One disaster after another, always has been.
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Respect authority while questioning it.
