Randy Pausch Quotes

Work hard. I got tenure a year early. Junior faculty members used to say to me: 'Wow, what's your secret?' I said: 'It's pretty simple. Call me any Friday night in my office at 10 o'clock, and I'll tell you.'

Randy Pausch

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: educator
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 23, 1960 - July 25, 2008

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If all I did was answer the correspondence I get, that would be my job.

Jim Harrison

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I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories.

John Francis

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Instead of investing our resources in locking people up, let's invest more of those resources in our fellow citizens so they don't end up in the system to begin with. And if they do, they can get back on their feet.

John Legend

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My 1974 album 'Mind Over Matter' was a detailed thing about Watergate. I always had some righteous indignation.

Robert Klein

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A McDonald's cheeseburger with no mustard is my guilty pleasure.

Matt Hardy

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I really don't have favorites; I'm just a fan of movies, period.

Michael Clarke Duncan

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Photography has become so fundamental to the way we see that 'photography' and 'seeing' are becoming more and more synonymous. The ubiquity of photography is, perhaps ironically, a challenge to curators, practitioners, and critics.

Trevor Paglen

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The harder you try, the better the impression you set on the people around you.

Tom Holland

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There is no magic in all the world like that magic when you sell your first bit of writing.

Rosamunde Pilcher

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While Obama, the olive-branch poseur, has called for a restoration of 'civility' in Washington and liberal elites whine and whinny about the need for 'no labels,' class-warfare demagoguery has metastasized unchecked.

Michelle Malkin

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Your lungs are changed forever from your first cigarette.

Loni Anderson

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Sometimes I do pinch myself about the life I've had.

Dennis Farina

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