Sam Altman Quotes
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Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.
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There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just can't compare yourself to people in magazines.
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I tend to love actors. I was trained as an actor first so I'm drawn to actors.
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Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.
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I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.
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Don't ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can't have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.
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Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
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There's nobody that's ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit. I believed what he said. Like if I said, 'What do I do?' he'd tell me. And that's what I missed when I left. I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust.
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All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
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I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
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If you watch a television show made by accomplished professionals of children's TV, it's all very expressive.
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I've long thought that for my last meal on earth I will be perfectly happy with a granary loaf toastie with melted crunchy peanut butter and banana.
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But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
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I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
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I give 110% while I am working. I know I do, because I have been doing this since I was nine. This is a way of life for me. So whether it be successful or not is not in my hands. I still do my job, the best I can.
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I dare to do things - that's how I survive.
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I wanted to get into films, and my parents were against it. I convinced my mom, and finally she convinced my dad. My dad then felt, who best to launch his son than him? So he launched me, and here I am.
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I beg the Most High to allow me the favour of the double reward, but if God only finds me worthy of one reward, I will accept it in all humility.
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Every failure can be considered as a tragedy or a chance to learn something. The latter is healthier...
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The world had known but one perfect man, and no perfect woman whatever.
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No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
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Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening.
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Loopt wouldn't have happened without Y Combinator.
