Randy Pausch Quotes
You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get in mainstream media is for profit.
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I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I'm sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don't even know when you're being compromised till after the fact, and that's what you regret.
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A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.
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Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
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Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
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Don't try to convince your partner you are right. Instead of trying to win arguments, try to have a winning relationship!
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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That's the best kind of music: the stuff that happens based off intuition.
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One day, I hope to have a pot bellied pig and a wombat as pets.
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I always believe that most people could do it. I mean obviously I didn't just sit and stand. I used to love cradling the gun and just posing with the hand cocked ready to fire the gun, and the costume helped a great deal.
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'Breaking Bad' is great at blurring the line between good and evil. It makes you feel compassion for Walter White so you're with him throughout this descent into the darker parts of his psyche. The bad that we're capable of is all circumstantial.
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.
