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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My favorite thing to do in this world is to be on the ice playing hockey and try to entertain fans and bring wins to the Chicago Blackhawks.
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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 think the best directors provide you with a safe environment where they can instill you with confidence and allow you to try things out and not feel like you're failing or that you're doing it wrong.
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I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun.
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You fouled a guy who needs to be fouled. If he's going to the basket, you don't give a knick-knack foul and then argue with the ref. You foul him so he knows, so the next guy coming behind him knows, so his team knows you can't go in the lane.
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It's the same girl-who-has-everything story. You know, the one where she's insecure and scared and unhappy and has marriage problems and doesn't know how to handle stardom and screws up right and left and gets in with the wrong people and goes down the drain.
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I thought, 'What if I were 17, and it was my small town of Springhill, Louisiana? How would I feel if people started flooding in to see some bird?'
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People are incredible creatures of habit.
