Randy Pausch Quotes
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
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When I got out of high school, I started breaking out. I tried everything from A to Z as far as seeing doctors and getting prescriptions. I even did home remedies, and I had no luck. A fan gave me Proactiv, and it cleared my skin, but there were too many steps. I lose everything, and I lost one of the products. My acne started to come back.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
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In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.
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I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
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There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that's the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge.
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We run to win, not just to be in the race.
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I would love to do something like 'Fishing With John.'
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I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.
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It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality.
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I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to the regular person, who might be intimidated. I try hard, particularly with wine, to make it not intimidating. It's sort of a teaching job.
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Pink Floyd was music for rich college kids, and we were the exact f**king opposite of that.
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Did you figure out the second head fake? This talk's not for you. It's for my kids.
