Randy Pausch Quotes
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.
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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 look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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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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There are a bunch of images that are thrown in our faces all the time about what we're supposed to look like at 14, 15, 16. It's confusing. I think every woman can identify with that struggle.
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It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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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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I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.
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Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.
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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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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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When I was at youth theatre and drama school, I never thought people would mistake me for a stand-up.
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Those in science perform research, have it reviewed by their peers, publish the results, and believe the answer should be obvious.
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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.
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You don’t find time for important things, you make it.
