Sam Altman Quotes
The only way to generate sustained exponential growth is to make whatever you're making sufficiently good.
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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I'm curvy.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.
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You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, really. I wouldn't say it's a career in fashion. The range is all day-to-day stuff that I'd put on and use myself.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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'Life as a Dog' is when I really started to feel comfortable, like I had the due north on my compass.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a lot of hits. But it's all my songs, so that's something to be excited about 24 hours a day.
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I don't know, I like to go on really different types of dates. Going someplace new or some new part of the city, something that's not your average thing. Something where you just go have an adventure together.
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There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.
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Even before I did stand-up, I've always been the kind of guy - and I talk about it on stage - who says I like people and I always look for the good in people. I say, 'Every person has something good about them, if you can just find it.'
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When you're going through tough moments, you never know when you're going to have good moments.
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When considering a candidate for office, almost right up until they enter the polling booth and sometimes even in the booth itself, most voters rely more on what they see and hear themselves in real time than on facts, history, logic, or learned experience.
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The only way to generate sustained exponential growth is to make whatever you're making sufficiently good.
