Randy Pausch Quotes
Remember brick walls let us show our dedication. They are there to separate us from the people who don't really want to achieve their childhood dreams.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
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Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.
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I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.
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The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.
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When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner.
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My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.
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It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
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I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.
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There's no such thing as a 100-year flood.
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In the U.S., the country that has always been lecturing the world about the value of freedoms - of freedom of speech, of everyone's right to speak up - the U.S. has now become a beacon, a leader, in this movement to shut everyone up. That's so disappointing.
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It's funny because 'Felicity' didn't have a huge following, but the following it did have is hugely devoted, so people who are fanatics about 'Felicity' would run up to me all the time. I'd be at a bar, and someone will go, 'Hey, were you on Felicity? ...' I loved doing the show.
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Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
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Remember brick walls let us show our dedication. They are there to separate us from the people who don't really want to achieve their childhood dreams.
