Sam Altman Quotes
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Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
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Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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I'm past my wooing days now. See, I am an honest person. If I like a girl, I will go and tell her.
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The most profound change that genetics brings about might not be scientific at all. It might be mental and even spiritual enrichment: a more expansive sense of who we humans are, existentially, and where we came from, and how we fit with other life on earth.
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You have to actually be weighted to something to do the moonwalk, you know.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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I love elephants! It's my favorite animal.
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We are in a culture where it's so easy to just turn things off that you don't like. And I think that doesn't make you a well-rounded person or artist. You have to be able to take the good with the bad and have opinions on things!
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I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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On almost every environmental issue I care about, in fact, I've been wrong at one point or another. I used to think that climate change was no big deal, that most environmental problems were massive exaggerations, that oil reserves were effectively unlimited, and more.
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My parents told me either I choose badminton, or school has to make the best of me.
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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
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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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When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.
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But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.
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I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivid images of the legal principles and implications of the ruling that will stick in the Justices' heads and will help influence how they think about the case.
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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Chemical weapons simply have no place in the 21st century. Progress in this vital area will help generate momentum to meet our goal of eliminating all weapons of mass destruction.
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You're gifted to do something.
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When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble.
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I tell you, the paparazzi would not be sitting outside if they realized I was the most boring person in Hollywood.
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You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.
