Randy Pausch Quotes
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I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.
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Would the world be a better place if all drugs were legalized tomorrow? Absolutely. But pragmatically speaking, you're not going to go from the criminalization of all drugs to the legalization of drugs overnight.
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I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true.
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I think I have lived in every part of L.A. except downtown. Everywhere from Topanga Canyon to Toluca Lake.
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From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.
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No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
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I love hiking in the hills not far from my house. I'm invested in my hikes. Sometimes kids go up there and spray-paint over the signs; I've found a biodegradable paint cleaner, and I'll scrub the signs so they're nice and clean.
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My witness is the empty sky.
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I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.
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I've never worked with huge pop acts, I mightn't like it, but it's something I've always wanted to try.
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It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a monochromatic or monocultural story unless you're doing something extremely small - a locked room-style story.
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That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish.
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I'm very active, wild woman.
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There are terrible things going on in the world, but I am not going to force them down everyone's throats.
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If you like gold, there are many reasons you should like Bitcoin.
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I can give you a definite perhaps.
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Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
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Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.
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I feel rejecting rejection is one of the most crucial steps in getting past failure.
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...just as great men are great disasters, overwhelmingly good poets are overwhelmingly bad influences.
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I just have this fear that I'll get on stage and there'll be that brief moment of adrenalin and I'll forget my line.
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I don't need to be the singer of Nightwish 24/7 when I'm not touring or when I want to go to the supermarket in my comfy pants.
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The government to you is what God is to agnostics-only to be invoked when your own well being is at stake.
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Make your office comfortable for you, and optionally comfortable for others.
