Randy Pausch Quotes
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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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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 function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.
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Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.
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Fairy tales are with us day in and day out, not just in commercials, but references in the theater, movies, museums, schools, etc.
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This all comes down to what we know about life on Earth.
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Great and strange ideas transcending experience often have less effect upon men and women than smaller, more tangible considerations.
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I guess I am basically most comfortable when I'm alone. As a kid, I was very much a loner. I love long distance running and long distance biking. A director once pointed out that those are all very isolated exercises you do for hours at a time.
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Turn money into time – especially important for people with kids.
