Sam Altman Quotes
I don't think people spend nearly enough time thinking about what they like and what they're good at.
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I believe that entrepreneurs play an unmatched role and the accelerating pace of innovation is transforming the face of global challenges. You must think about the solution differently when you're trying to impact 1 billion people rather than affecting 1 million people.
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I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.
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My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
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Twerking has to end. Not for the ones that look good doing it, but for all the ones that you feel, 'You don't have enough to twerk back there. Your twerkin' look like jerkin.'
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Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.
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The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
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There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things - sights, sounds, smells, different kinds of people. But one good thing about growing up fast is you get over it fast, too.
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When I finally finished the 'Two Suns' tour, which went on for quite a long time, I felt like a bit of a husk. And I remember thinking, 'I need to spend some time in one place, and just be at home.' So I guess the first year of that three and a half years was spent just trying to kind of get back to normal again.
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Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.
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I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.
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I'm sorry; I ruin people's interviews because I just talk about rubbish.
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In boxing, there are no bad guys or good guys. Just people trying to make a living and trying to live up to their pride and to try to become someone.
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In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.
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Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I've just been sitting around waiting for the best indie film that I deem acceptable.
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Sometimes sushi is just superb, and other times there's nothing like a great big steak. It depends where your taste buds are at the time.
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Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note.
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I work with CEOs and their executive teams... and very few of these people are really indifferent about their employees or their customers.
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I spent a lot of time taking acting lessons... Actors have no inhibitions, and I'm inhibited by everything. To be able to make fun of yourself is a skill and a liberating experience.
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I'm very interested in people who seem very negative and nasty and to go inside their world and see why they get that way. It makes you a little more sympathetic to them, even though I really don't want to be around those people.
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Give your problem all the thought you possibly can before a solution is reached. But when the matter is settled and over with, worry not at all.
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Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
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My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.
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There are a lot of bands and performers whose careers are permanently derailed by spectacularly bad management.
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I don't think people spend nearly enough time thinking about what they like and what they're good at.
