Randy Pausch Quotes
I will take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long-term.
Quotes to Explore
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.
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I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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Honesty is something you can't wear out.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.
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We have a slight lead over Bremen now, but at this level everything can change in an instant.
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Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
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My mum Mary was always a bright, confident and fiercely independent lady.
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Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill.
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If I were to wait only for roles that clarify my racial makeup, I'd be waiting for a very, very long time.
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I will take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long-term.
