Luis von Ahn Quotes
When I found out that I had won the MacArthur Fellowship, I had been a professor at Carnegie Mellon for a week. I probably shouldn't be saying this on TV, but I stopped worrying about tenure.
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Humanity will live as long as there are humans.
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When you take risks and things don't go your way, you can be heavily criticised by the media.
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I've found that musical theater is my passion.
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I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice.
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At one point I thought changing my name might help with privacy, but that was before the Internet.
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Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
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I see it as a responsibility of mine to teach others.
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I would really like to do a straight action movie that's hardcore - heavy action, like 'The Expendables' or 'Fast Five.'
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It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job.
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For 100 m., you have to go out fast but also bring it back, so we've been doing a lot of work on the back-end speed.
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Always marry a woman from Texas. No matter how tough things get, she's seen tougher.
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The gradual decline of a society is often a self-induced process of trying to meet ever-expanding appetites, rather than a physical inability to produce past levels of food and fuel, or to maintain adequate defense.
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The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.
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The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.
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I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.
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I love rock music, I love country music - I love all music, let's be honest!
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When I started music, I think it was responsible for keeping me sane, because training as a dancer really kept me in good spirits amid all the crazy stuff that happened when I first became popular.
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'Social engineering,' the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets, is at least as great a threat as spooky technology.
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It is us today. It will be you tomorrow.
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Although it was created with the best of intentions, the federal government's Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program has become one of the worst and most costly boondoggles ever foisted on the American public.
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Music controls moods and accents life's moments. It's necessary for every situation.
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During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn't know I knew.
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When it comes down to it, I'm a 'skinny jeans and graphic t-shirt' kind of gal. My combat boots are my life.
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When I found out that I had won the MacArthur Fellowship, I had been a professor at Carnegie Mellon for a week. I probably shouldn't be saying this on TV, but I stopped worrying about tenure.
