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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I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.
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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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Once you make the majors, it's never a great feeling to go back to the minors - no matter what the circumstances.
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I am hell-bent for the South Pole - God willing and crevasses permitting.
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There's an enormous difference between being a critic and a reviewer. The reviewer reacts to the experience of that book.
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Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst ... which often, never comes.
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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.
