Randy Pausch Quotes
The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.'
Quotes to Explore
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I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.
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Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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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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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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The brunette phase just came about because I was fed up with this 'Blonde Angel Image'. The rebel in me demanded a new color.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.
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'Habibi' is a complex and unapologetic work of fantasy - no idle undertaking for readers of any faith or no faith at all, but one well worth the trouble.
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One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.
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I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.
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Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed relic of the ancient economy of the gift, and the time freely given to people dear to you actually creates magical abundance.
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If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
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I record the following shows on a daily basis and watch them when I have the time/inclination: 'The Daily Show,' Rachel Maddow, 'Hardball,' 'The Colbert Report,' 'The O'Reilly Factor,' David Letterman.
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You've got to invest your own time, invest your own resources into creating a better world, not only for yourself but for the people you surround yourself with.
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The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.'
