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 had been to Europe that summer, and they said, 'Can anybody verify that?'
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At one point, I just decided that it might be more creatively rewarding to put my time into writing on stuff that I could really be proud of rather than trying to get a one-episode part on 'Modern Family' or something.
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Each person has unspeakable distress. When I remember the past, annoying, I cry; The reality of today is too cruel, too severe, and doesn't even offer me a dream; Imagining the future brings me yet another kind of tears
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I'm afraid that the gift of visiting the past is all that we have. We can revisit it, but only as it happened.
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Loopt wouldn't have happened without Y Combinator.
