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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I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.
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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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Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission.
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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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'Billy On The Street' has no doubt always been about the people we talk to. That being said, it thrills me that the show really has a dedicated following in the comedy world.
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And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.
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The Word of God is so much broader than people are giving it credit for. Look at Proverbs, a book written on how to live.
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Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.
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Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
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Turn money into time – especially important for people with kids.
