Sam Altman Quotes
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I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.
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I hope that on my tombstone it says 'Born 1933, died 2043.' I hope that's my legacy.
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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
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You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.
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I get asked to comment a lot on inequality in cycling, but for me it has never been an issue. Everything has always been equal on the track, and the male and female riders are all part of the same team, and we all mix freely.
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Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
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I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.'
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
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Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
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I'm easily entertained.
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Even if it wasn't always morning in America during the years of his presidency, Reagan's eagerness to insist that it was tapped into a longing among voters. They didn't want to picture themselves turning down their thermostats and buttoning up their cardigans. They wanted to strut again. Reagan opened his arms and said, 'Walk this way.'
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.
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I'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.
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We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.
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My grandfather allowed as how I might even live long enough to see a Mars landing. I haven't, of course, except in fiction, including my own, and strongly doubt that I ever will.
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I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn't a model. I'd go touring in a bus with my band. In my next life, that's the plan.
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Going to Freedom's Watch was a job opportunity that presented itself, so I jumped at it.
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I'm used to having a lot of criticism. It's normal. It's normal when you come from South America, when you have a country pushing very hard in your back.
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My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life.
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I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.
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I haven't put an ounce of effort into my families. I never have.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
