Luis von Ahn Quotes
I put a lot of weight on feelings and am weirdly in touch with them, which is not typical for an engineer.
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I like to connect with people and suss them out. There's no better way than seeing how they react if you just bear into them.
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Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
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Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?
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I think the sidekick makes the number one look good.
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There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
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Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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School boards can be a steppingstone to higher forms of political leadership.
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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
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I am always late because people stop me for autographs and say hi.
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Think on your toes, use what's around you, and come up with something organic and fun.
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
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The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.
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Making films. It gave me a voice. Legitimately saved me.
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I actually hate shopping.
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I was raised on a ranch in Wyoming, and I've been riding horses most of my life.
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We never had a huge squad and we never had a great deal of choice. But in many ways that helps because you've got to make do with what you've got. You don't have too many problems about picking the team you just hope that everyone turns up on the day.
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People who know me know that there's a light-hearted side, humour... But you could easily say I am cheeky.
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I have a lot of friends who are involved in everything from Americana to blues to R&B to pop to country.
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It's weird: people used to want your autograph; now what they want to do is to take your photograph with an iPhone. And sometimes they'll pop their arm around you to hold their iPhone; they're shaking when they take it.
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It doesn't matter how much money you've got, or how many connections, there's always something you want that's out of reach.
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The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it. I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.
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Generally speaking, they have as many stars as other firms, but they are low-key about it, because that's not the Goldman way, but their bench is a lot deeper. I think Goldman has as many A players, but more importantly they have fewer C players. And no firm, I have noticed, has the depth anywhere like that.
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I put a lot of weight on feelings and am weirdly in touch with them, which is not typical for an engineer.
