American - Educator | October 23, 1960 - July 25, 2008
When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
Randy Pausch
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I've never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion.
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The metaphor I've used is... somebody's going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and I won't be there to catch them. And that breaks my heart. But I have some time to sew some nets to cushion the fall. So, I can curl up in a ball and cry, or I can get to work on the nets.
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I played in football games where you walk off the field and the scoreboard didn't end up the way you wanted. But you knew that you really did give it all. And the other team was too strong.
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I'm not going to beat the cancer. I tried really hard... but sometimes you're just not going to beat the thing... I wanted to walk off the stage and say anything I thought was important; I had my hour.
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Chemo days make me tired, though it's hard to say that's because of the chemo when you have kids who have inherited their dad's usual energy level.
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It's hard to raise awareness of pancreatic cancer - people who get it don't live long enough.
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Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.
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If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.
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If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.
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I don't know how to not have fun. I'm dying and I'm having fun, and I'm going to keep having fun every day I've got left.
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I'm a professor. I know that people in research labs can do miraculous things if they're given the resources.
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