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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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You are not indispensable to your church, but you are indispensable to your family.
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
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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.
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I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
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The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
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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.
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Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.
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You either get better, or you don't progress.
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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.
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I feel nothing can push you till the time you want to get pushed.
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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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!
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The real is always way ahead of what we can imagine.
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People are like, 'Was it hard growing up mixed?' 'Did you not fit in?' and I'm like, 'No? What? That's the dumbest question ever.'
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One of the reasons I've been able to be productive is that I want to do everything.
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'Friend Monkey' is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is based is my favorite - the myth of the Monkey Lord who loved so much that he created chaos wherever he went.
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We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.
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Don't hire for the sake of hiring. Hire because there is no other way to do what you want to do.
