Sam Altman Quotes
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Don't program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.
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I got my first leopard print coat when I was 15. I nearly got beat up, but I was happy with it.
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I loved the challenge of being able to take a character who could be thrown away as 'crazy' and making her identifiable to the audience - also, to give her a vulnerability that people would cheer for.
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I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.
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I've tried to work really hard on never phoning in the lyrics.
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I'm not into replicating old movies. But one should never say never. Tomorrow I may feel like making a part 2 of some of my movies.
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Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain.
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Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
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I think it's always interesting to make sensational stories where, if these people don't make the right choice, it actually puts marks not just on their souls but also their bodies. That means that you can visualize existential questions.
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You can't play having a mental disability. You have to play whatever that person's truth is without any judgement.
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Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.
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I don't attend costume parties.
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I'm just trying to say that it should reassure us that the inevitable traumas of being human do end up producing some good. Otherwise, the human condition is overwhelmingly depressing.
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The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that's the point.
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The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.
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When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.
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We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.
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The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity.
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My label, my team and I are always looking to get involved with positive things.
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I don't quite have the luxury of cherry-picking - I have to see what comes my way. But I have always been picky.
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I don't often get involved with campaigns at all.
