Sam Altman Quotes
Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.
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When you're a kid, to be honest, you could be in the worst situation ever, but you're still going to have ways to enjoy it.
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What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.
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I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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I don't want to be someone's entertainment.
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Money is emphasized in Scripture simply because our temptation to love it is inexplicably powerful.
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I'm more interested in the future than in the past, because the future is where I intend to live.
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Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
