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'm not sure there are too many people who write what I write.
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You have to be able to recognize defenses on your own in pro football. You can't look to the sideline and read some board. You've got to recognize the defense on your own, and then you've got to communicate to your offensive teammates what you want them to do.
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Cocaine made people deaf, it made people dead and it made people real obnoxious.
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Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition.
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Video games are so popular these days, getting the opportunity to star in one is something special. More people should do it.
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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.
