Luis von Ahn Quotes
Basically, I want to make all of humanity more efficient by exploiting the human cycles that get wasted.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.
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I think it's certainly natural to try new things as you grow up and get older!
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A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake.
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I am a feminist and I have no problems being called that.
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My goal is to hit the gym every day I'm on vacation. Usually I just end up sleeping and drinking beer.
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It's no secret that in our society, and many before, people are trend followers. For some reason, they feel better about themselves if they are dressed in the latest fashion or have the newest tech gadget.
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According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.
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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
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Let's face it: fitness is boring. But it's critical to be extremely dedicated to whatever you decide to take up to achieve a desired result. There's no way you are going to get there without dedication, which is the key for me.
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If we can remain present and deal with the moment in front of us, no matter what our battle, then if we lose, we'll know that ultimately we weren't supposed to win that battle in the first place.
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I believe in order to make a friend, you have to be a friend.
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It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.
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We need to reach out - spend more time together.
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The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
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The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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Basically, I want to make all of humanity more efficient by exploiting the human cycles that get wasted.
