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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The last thing you want is to not be recognized for all of the hard work you put in.
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The whole reason I did a bodybuilding show was to see how far I could push my own discipline. It was the hardest thing I've ever done. When I made the switch to acting, I was able to break that down into small, measurable goals like I did with bodybuilding.
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The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds.
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I think it's because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly, truly walk the talk.
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I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you've never been able to before.
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People are incredible creatures of habit.
