Sam Altman Quotes
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I don't care what the critics say or think because I care for and love my fans.
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My parents separated when I was very small. I grew up with my mother, and I was a single child then. She was very independent, doing her things and having fun alone and working.
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My parents never understood why I didn't want to be a doctor or lawyer. They're Cuban immigrants who wanted to give their children the American dream, and, to them, that was more of what 'the dream' entailed.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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I come from an area where it's mostly, like, football and basketball, those are the sports. So my brother started surfing... I used to make fun of him for it, and then he challenged me to do it, and I'm a huge competitor, and I did it ,and I got hooked.
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I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
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Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the human voices. But mostly, go for the glorious music. The arts are crucial to the life of every community.
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A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
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The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
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Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue an education and realize the American Dream.
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I hope that the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be a life-altering experience that inspires every American to rededicate themselves to the fulfillment of Dr. King's dream.
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The purse strings tie us to our kind.
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It was like I lived in a little suburban neighborhood in the middle of New York City because I could run around barefoot or, you know, completely independently from a very young age in the safety of this building where I knew everybody and where I had friends on every floor, and I knew the bellmen in the lobby.
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And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
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Random things are luxurious to people. It's personal.
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The poor don't live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken systems extend from local government to moneylenders.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
