Sam Altman Quotes
For most of the early hires you make in a startup, experience doesn't matter very much, and you should go for aptitude.
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You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
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It's all about destiny. That's why people look at the zodiac or the I Ching - because there's a certain order to life, and that order has been lived since the beginning of time. No matter what you do, you're going to live inside of it.
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My style is all I have. When I go on stage, that's me in my comfort zone. It's not a costume. It's just me. And I want every woman to feel that way.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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The stratosphere is a hostile place.
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To be honest, I didn't really understand how involved putting a fragrance together could be - or would be. Once I made the choice to actually do it, I just went for it. I just dove in and have really learned a lot about putting a scent together. It's kind of exciting.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
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I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
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People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.
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You wouldn't go to a hospital, you wouldn't go to a law firm where the doctors and lawyers were not retained on merit: where they all had tenure regardless of competence. Parents feel the same way about schools that they send their children to.
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After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these little places. You're out there on a rickety old bus with no place to shower.
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Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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You have to understand that I'm not just some guy who voices characters in animated movie and TV shows.
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For most of the early hires you make in a startup, experience doesn't matter very much, and you should go for aptitude.
