Sam Altman Quotes
I don't invest in companies where my mental model is that they need to get themselves acquired in the next few years - or ever.

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I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
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I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.
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The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.
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CEOs are worried they're going to get fired any minute. They're worried about their portfolios.
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
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The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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The darkness of clubs makes me feel much more secure, and you can hide behind smoke and lights.
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Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.
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My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low tax rate when they decide where to locate.
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It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.
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I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.
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Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
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I wasn't an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.
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The Antichrist is often identified with the second beast in the Book of Revelation that arises from the land, the beast that tries to make everyone worship the power of evil.
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I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I well know the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social equality and economic protection of the individual appeared to me always as the important communal aims of the state.
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You can't do it with strangers. It takes about five years to get into the ebb and flow. If it's not working after five years, get rid of them.
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Your parents are always a big influence on you. They help you make you who you are. The main thing my parents taught me is just to be a nice person - to be generous, kind and happy. I hope it comes off when I work and meet people.
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I don't invest in companies where my mental model is that they need to get themselves acquired in the next few years - or ever.