Sam Altman Quotes
If you ask a founder how their company is doing, they always say, 'Oh it's great. We're totally crushing it,' and that's almost never true.
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There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.
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Your man wants to know that there's nothing you wouldn't do for him - if that's your committed relationship.
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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
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I just prepare myself to perform well, to support my teammates to play well, to try to get to the final, to the World Series.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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There are two books that I often travel with; one is 'The Theory on Moral Sentiments' by Adam Smith. The other is 'The Meditations.' It's not that I agree with either views expressed in the books, but I believe ideas and thoughts of older generations can offer food for thought for the current generation.
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My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only one sticking around.
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Prop 8 did something that no other state in the history of this country has done. It took away the rights of people that already were legally affirmed. Imagine someone putting something on the ballot saying your wedding, your marriage is no longer valid.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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I arrive in New York on October 15, 1975. On my own, by the way.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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In a lot of the art world, you have to present yourself as you know what you're doing at a young age. Music gave me another outlet. The 'no wave' bands were such an inspiration; it felt so free - once you start doing it, it's hard to stop. But I can't get away from art. It comes back around. I wouldn't be true to myself if I didn't pursue it.
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I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
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Before 'Whiplash,' I'd had a string of failed scripts. I'd pour my blood, sweat and tears into them, and no one would like them.
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We've got a number of options, which include doing nothing, proceeding with the restricted transfer notice, increasing the price, decreasing the number of conditions or some other variation.
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If you ask a founder how their company is doing, they always say, 'Oh it's great. We're totally crushing it,' and that's almost never true.
