Sam Altman Quotes

Don't hire for the sake of hiring. Hire because there is no other way to do what you want to do.

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• 'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Want
  • Constitution
  • Empathy

• You are not indispensable to your church, but you are indispensable to your family.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Family
  • You
  • Church

• Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • People
  • Want
  • See

• When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Up
  • You

• There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • You
  • Person
  • Then

• Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
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  • House

• I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.

  

  Edgar Bergen
  • Important
  • You
  • Questions

• The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • You
  • First
  • Accept

• Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • You
  • Look
  • Leap

• I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

  

  Orson Welles
  • God
  • Want
  • Because

• Never met Levinson. Ever. He directed those American Express spots for us for Seinfeld, and I was off on some guest spot that I didn't even want to do... and I got talked into doing it.

  

  Patrick Warburton
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• Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.

  

  Beck
  • You
  • Interesting
  • Find

• You either get better, or you don't progress.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • You
  • Progress
  • Better

• The worst thing would be for a Canada to develop a Hollywood. This is an industry we are going to have to fight to defend. We have to compete now so productions stay here. We don't want entertainment to be like the steel industry.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Want
  • Fight
  • Canada

• I feel nothing can push you till the time you want to get pushed.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Time
  • Want
  • Push

• For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • You
  • Poetry
  • Quit

• I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.

  

  Edie Falco
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  • Want
  • Me

• There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • People
  • You
  • Environment

• ...the way i see it, hard times aren't only about money, or drought, or dust. hard times are about losing spirit, and hope, and what happens when dreams dry up.

  

  Karen Hesse
  • Money
  • Way
  • Times

• Mohd Rafi saab and I fought over royalty rights. At a meeting attended by prominent singers and musicians, he stood up and said, 'Main aaj se Lata ke saath nahin gaoonga'. I retorted, 'Rafi saab, ek minute. Aap nahin gaayenge mere saath yeh galat baat hai. Main aapke saath nahin gaoongee'. I stormed out and called all my composers there and then and informed them to rope in another singer if it was a duet with Rafi saab.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
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  • Rights
  • Musicians

• I fell through a stage once. I was doing a truly African dance, and all of a sudden, I hit the ground with my foot and went straight through the stage. I guess they didn't have much money, so the floor was kind of rotting.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Money
  • Dance
  • Doing

• Calling representatives every single day, arranging local community meetings, and marching in the streets every Sunday. It's not the path to glory, but it's absolutely essential to maintaining a democracy under threat.

  

  Laura Moser
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  • Day

• Don't hire for the sake of hiring. Hire because there is no other way to do what you want to do.

  

  Sam Altman
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