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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I met Jared Leto at Soho House in Berlin.
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I've enjoyed all the work I've done, and I feel quite lucky that I haven't been playing sweet girls all the time.
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My family loves to take me out, and we do regular things like go to the movies. My friends do that as well. At the same time, I love work and I want to be busy all the time!
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If I can, I love staying in pajamas all day and watching movies and eating good food.
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No distance can keep anxious lovers long asunder.
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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.
