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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Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.
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Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.
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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient whose care I am taking over is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it's only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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The mindset that I have on every project I take on is, 'How do I make this interesting enough for me to want to stop and look at it?' So in that regard, what I do behind the camera, whether it's still or motion picture, is the same.
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Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.
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Naturally it is nice to be widely known for worthwhile achievements, but it forces you to do many things which you don't like to do and these things take up time you want for other things.
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I knew Otto Kahn [According to the Figaro, Mr. Kahn on first going to America was a clerk in the firm of Speyer and Company, and married a grand-daughter of Mr. Wolf, one of the founders of Kuhn, Loeb & Company], the multi-millionaire, for many years. I knew him when he was a patriotic German. I knew him when he was a patriotic American. Naturally, when he wanted to enter the House of Commons, he joined the 'patriotic party.'
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You really want a company full of missionaries, not mercenaries.
