Randy Pausch Quotes
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
Nancy O'Dell -
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.
Felicia Day -
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.
Barbara Kruger -
Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
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.
Tamara Ecclestone -
Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
Larry King
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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.
S. Jay Olshansky -
The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
Natalie Jeremijenko -
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'
Maggie Wheeler -
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.
Ban Ki-moon -
Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
Pamela Hansford Johnson
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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.
Kapil Dev -
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.
Abraham Lincoln -
I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.
Karen Gillan -
America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
Randi Weingarten -
I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.
Olivia Colman -
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.
W. Bruce Cameron
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I don't purposely push the boundaries... I think if you pay attention to a story, it will have exactly as much 'difficult material' as it needs, and nobody will complain about it because you've earnt it.
Patrick Ness -
You would never have seen me on any party scene, which is probably what made me able to disappear, in a way, because the tabloids had nothing to follow.
Duncan Jones -
Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer and chat.
Barry Hannah -
I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young - the books I read as a child have stayed with me my entire life - and yet, the people who write about books, for the most part, completely ignore children's literature.
Gabrielle Zevin -
Turn money into time – especially important for people with kids.
Randy Pausch