Sam Altman Quotes
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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
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If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.
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I'm still good for hitting the road. I'll be doing that a fair bit.
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There was a windstorm in L.A., and the morning after there was no smog, and I could see the mountains. And I was like... 'There's mountains? Snowcap mountains?' That's insane; I've been there for thirteen years, and I've never seen that view before, seeing the mountains in the distance.
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Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world.
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People are incredible creatures of habit.
