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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Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.
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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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The 'hood don't really wanna hear it, but you need brown rice, you need wheat bread, stuff like that.
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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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Dear Reader,
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Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.
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I grew up hip-hop dancing; I've always wanted to create music that I could dance to.
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It is in your nature to destroy yourselves.
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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.
