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.
Quotes to Explore
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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
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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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Enforcement is the long overdue step to protect our Nation from external threats in a time of war. And then once we do that, we can effectively discuss a guest worker program.
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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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If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
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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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After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.
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Humility is something I've always prided myself on.
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My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman.
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Ten years from now I will tell you how I feel about umpires.
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For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of my stock consists of Filipino books written in English and in the native languages.
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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.
