Sam Altman Quotes
The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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I am very proud to be African. I want to defend African people, and I want to show to the world that African players can be as good as the Europeans and South Americans.
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I'm constantly thinking about the role, and there's an infinite amount of questions you can ask yourself about a character to the point that it's hard to find the boundaries of when to not work.
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I grew up as a country boy.
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At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.
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If I'm trying to rebound after a bad hole, I just go back to tempo and process and rhythm, and I cling to my routine.
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I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's real when it comes to AIDS.
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Our rights are interconnected and inseparable. When freedom of expression is threatened, the rights to freedom of association and assembly, of thought, conscience and religion, are also compromised.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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I have made that one of my policies never to play anything that I've already put on record.
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The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God.
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I'm a child of the Sixties.
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Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.
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Conspiracy theories feed on opacity, and that's a longtime problem with short selling. Large long positions must be reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission in public filings, but not large short positions.
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I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn't feel like an actor anymore. That sounds silly, but when you're doing a play you're using different muscles, and it blew all the cobwebs away.
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Gemmell's name guarantees a satisfying story and a thumping good read. I recommend all his heroic creations - 'Druss the axeman,' 'the Jerusalem man,' among others - but my favourite has to be 'Waylander': Clint Eastwood with a crossbow and the same 'Make my day, punk' attitude.
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I can always act.
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Someone once told me that something they really liked about me was that they thought that I was really down to earth and not high-maintenance. I think that was cool. It's important to stay grounded.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
