Randy Pausch Quotes
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults.
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There's more student debt than credit card debt! Everywhere I go, I run into young people trying to build careers while they keep shelling out money on their education loans. If the economy is looking for a new generation of home-buyers, I can't imagine they'll get it from these folks.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.
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I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn't English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish like Rizal, or even German or Japanese.
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The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
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To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of circumstance, and not choice, has driven us, is oppressive to the heart.
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I know there are going to be big challenges financially, but I'm excited artistically. I think that if the experience is better artistically, then we have more hope in the future.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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I put a lot of faith in dreams. I know that big movie roles and opportunities are going to happen.
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Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
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As far as standup, everybody has a vehicle they are driving. If what you do works, it's like playing golf. If you can master that one swing over and over again, you will be successful. That's what standup is. You have to have a central move and it has to be yours. You have to own your comedy, own what you do.
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I really don't like hurting people; I like making people feel good.
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I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.
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You don’t find time for important things, you make it.
