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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Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
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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've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
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Much of what we see in America, what most people feel has been progress and good things, have been brought about by the existence of third parties.
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All these rumors about [Tom Cruise] being gay. I don't believe it. I don't believe it for one minute. He hasn't been to one of my shows.
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The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience.
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I'm still going to have to go out and score, but defensively hopefully I can make them a little bit better.
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I have three sisters. I went to an all-girls academy.
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Turn money into time – especially important for people with kids.
