Randy Pausch Quotes

You don’t find time for important things, you make it.

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• When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Society
  • Sick
  • Liberty

• I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • Fiction
  • Fan
  • Historical

• I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Moral
  • Courage

• I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Fight
  • Find
  • Watch

• I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Kind
  • Cool
  • Sword

• Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.

  

  Nas
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Praise

• 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.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Old

• 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.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Trying
  • Money

• 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.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • War
  • Fighting
  • See

• As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Lose

• Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Work
  • Men
  • Crazy

• If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • You
  • Fall
  • Self-pity

• 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.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • American
  • Deep

• 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.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Writing
  • History
  • English

• 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.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Interesting
  • Movies
  • Walk

• 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.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Long
  • Heart
  • Choice

• 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.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Experience
  • Hope
  • Future

• Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • You
  • Government
  • Innovation

• The swine flu is evolution, isn't it? In a way, it's an evolution of flu.

  

  Alan Tudyk

• I have no interest in becoming a tax exile and living somewhere I don't want to - I just want to be at home with my family.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Family
  • Home
  • Want

• A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Action
  • Desire
  • Friend

• Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics – it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Time
  • Rock
  • New York

• You don’t find time for important things, you make it.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Important