Randy Pausch Quotes
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell with minimal interference by some very big corporations like Microsoft and Sprint and EA and BioWare. The advantage that these tech companies have is that they understand the space organically, versus traditional media companies.
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Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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I know I'm never going to be as successful as my dad, but I get bored doing nothing. I couldn't go from vacation to vacation and have no motivation.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
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The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
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People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'
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Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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Test cricket is a different sort of cricket altogether. Some players who are good for one-day cricket may be a handicap in a Test match.
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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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I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.
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America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.
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It's never easy to adapt a book, especially as the author, because it's as if you're chopping off appendages. It really feels painful to decide what has to go.
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The Royal Society view is completely apolitical: it will judge anything based on the evidence. One of the big strengths of the Society is that is it widely perceived as impartial and above the fray. We'd like to make sure it stays that way.
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At the end of the day, if it looks like you're not going to get paid, you might be willing to compromise to make sure that budget actually comes out. It's not all about your extreme point of view.
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Sometimes when I need something really nourishing, I'll use the Creme de la Mer night cream - it leaves my skin looking beautiful. I don't go too far on my make-up because I have to wear it so often for work, so I'm quite low key.
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You can never tell when princes will get squinty on you. You can never tell when they might suddenly feel their blood and go all royal.
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Turn money into time – especially important for people with kids.
