Sam Altman Quotes
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Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
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The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
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I'm totally a geek.
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I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.
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You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.
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When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.
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They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.
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I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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I'm showing the younger generation your career doesn't have to be over when you're 16-years-old.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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I played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years' from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers.
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Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.
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My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.
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If we don't like the Human Rights Council, then let's not fund it. We should pick and choose cafeteria style which groups we want to help.
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You're either too fat or too thin. You just can't win.
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If you're not acting, you're not an actor.
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To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.
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The best you can hope for in a relationship is to find someone whose flaws are the sort you don’t mind. It is futile to look for someone who has no flaws, or someone who is capable of significant change; that sort of person exists only in our imaginations.
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You really want a company full of missionaries, not mercenaries.
