Luis von Ahn Quotes

Our team at Duolingo is really cohesive, but this did not just happen. I made a concerted effort to hire people who are going to play nice.

Luis von Ahn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: businessman
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  • Birth: 1979

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EffortPeopleTeamPlayNiceHappen

When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn't setting the terms of the competition.

Robert McChesney

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Is our national goal to place as many people on welfare, food stamp support, as we can possibly put on that program? Is that our goal? Is that a moral vision for the United States of America, just to see how many people we can place in a situation where they're dependent on the federal government for their food?

Jeff Sessions

VisionFoodGovernmentSupportGoal

There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.

Jean Giraudoux

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Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.

Sophocles

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What you don't want to do - if you're concerned about poverty, if you're concerned about providing opportunity - you don't want to rip the bottom rung of the ladder of opportunity away from people.

Ron Johnson

OpportunityPeoplePovertyYouWant

I buy soy sauce and flavor it five different ways: with sake, mirin, sugar, kombu and bonito flakes. I use them on lots of dishes at home.

Masaharu Morimoto

HomeSugarBuySauceFlavorFive

I like people to be surprised by the turn of events. I don't want things just to be pat and formulaic. If there's some sort of internal combustion in the character or a desire to change the way things are going, that makes for conflict, which is the essence of drama.

Miranda Richardson

ChangeCharacterPeopleConflictWay

That is very different from how it used to be in the 20th century. Media was very one way. There's a small little industry. It broadcasted its message and everyone else in the world just had to listen. Now the internet is allowing what used to be a monologue to become a dialogue. I think that's healthy and actually restoring a more natural way.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

WorldSmallThinkInternetMedia

I'm a big Tom Hardy fan. He dresses pretty stylish, right?

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

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The brain is such an incredible computer.

Christina Applegate

BrainComputerIncredible

Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.

Arnold Rothstein

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Hats are attached to special moments in people's lives - weddings, or the races. In difficult times, people still get married; they still want to look their best.

Philip Treacy

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