Sam Altman Quotes
Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
Quotes to Explore
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There are so many songs in my heart and in my brain. I wake up at 2 in the morning, and I have to get up and sing them. There are so many of them, it's ridiculous.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.
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Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
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Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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The first presidential election I really paid attention to was in 1988 when George H. W. Bush ran against Michael Dukakis.
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All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.
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John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.
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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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Like most people, there are things I love about Amazon. It's cheap, it's fast, and it's at my doorstep. But Amazon will never replace the important role my local indie plays in my community.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
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I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.
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There is a perennial nobleness and even sacredness in work. Be he never so benighted and forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual Despair.
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I love going to work out now. It gets out aggression and my trainer really shakes it up so I don't get bored.
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It's time to put country ahead of party. It's time to put the next generation ahead of the next election.
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In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are no guarantees; the religious life is a venture; foolish and debilitating error is a permanent possibility.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
