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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She was obsessed with French and Swedish cinema. I also remember our mother showing us 'Gone With the Wind' very early on. She absolutely loved Vivien Leigh, so it must have been a formative experience for me, thinking, 'Oh, maybe one day I'll be like Vivien Leigh.'
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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 don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.
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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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Everyone was saying, "Oh, Chumbawamba, they're crap, can't get arrested." But we had absolute faith in what we were doing, so we put our heads down and made the best album we possibly could. Then we got a deal based on the final product.
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I took drugs because we all took drugs.
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I think that the key to any interview is allowing people to feel comfortable enough that they forget they're being interviewed.
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Fiscal discipline can turn the economy around.
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If you want someone to show up and help you if something bad happens, you'd better tell someone where you're going. And of course I wanted someone to know - but I'd made a choice and it was a choice I was going to have to live with.
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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.
