Sam Altman Quotes
I think the mistake people make most often when they invest in other kinds of startups is they say, 'This is totally different.' And so the things that matter, like making a product that people desperately want, like talking to customers, they throw this out the window. That is a recipe for heartache and tears.
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In order that people who suffer from depression seek treatment without a second thought, the stigmas must further fall until we reach a point in time when that person with leukemia and that person with depression both receive the same level of sympathy and the same level of rigorous treatment. Both people deserve it.
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
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From the consumer perspective, what happened in the U.S. 10 years ago and Europe five years ago is now happening in Russia. People are beginning to understand that e-commerce is easy and safe.
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IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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People will turn their noses up at a sequel or that type of thing, but Pixar really works hard - if they're making a sequel - to make a sequel an original movie, to make it an original story.
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It's important that people come see our show, because we are performers. We wanted people to see that.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.
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Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.
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You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.
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People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.
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I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.
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I know what people laugh at. I know their vocabulary.
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It is true that some people are interested in the buying part of things... They want to buy everything from the movie reviews to the media net to the opinions and so on.
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It's hard for me to find people to paint. There has got to be something about them that only I can see.
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You will not find the warrior, the poet, the philosopher or the Christian by staring into his eyes as if he were your mistress: better fight beside him, read with him, argue with him, pray with him.
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Being in love, you know... it's not like having a canary, in a cage. When you lose one sweetheart, you can't just go out and get another to replace her.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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I have always been part of a family with a great appreciation for the arts.
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I think the mistake people make most often when they invest in other kinds of startups is they say, 'This is totally different.' And so the things that matter, like making a product that people desperately want, like talking to customers, they throw this out the window. That is a recipe for heartache and tears.
