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If you don't have a leg to stand on, you can't put your foot down.
ROBERT ALTMAN

What is a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.
ROBERT ALTMAN

[From a May 1, 2004 article entitled "Still Up to Mischief" from The Guardian reporting on and qu...
ROBERT ALTMAN Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.
ROBERT ALTMAN What’s a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.
ROBERT ALTMAN What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.
ROBERT ALTMAN To play it safe is not to play.
ROBERT ALTMAN Every time we try to turn the lights up, they say, 'Turn 'em down!'
ROBERT ALTMAN Maybe there's a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic valu...
ROBERT ALTMAN Maybe there's a chance to get back to ... grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic valu...
ROBERT ALTMAN It's a variety show. We wrote it as we went along. As we were casting people, he was rewriting const...
ROBERT ALTMAN I look at [the award] as a nod to all of my films. To me, I've just made one long film. I know some ...
ROBERT ALTMAN I always thought this kind of award meant that it was over. I'm here, I think, under false pretences...
ROBERT ALTMAN No other filmmaker has gotten a better shake than I have. I'm very fortunate in my career. I've neve...
ROBERT ALTMAN And I said,
ROBERT ALTMAN And I said, 'No. You either give this film back to me, or you don't.' I said, 'I've gone through tha...
ROBERT ALTMAN I think these awards are wonderful. Cinema should get more international. The fine boundary lines do...
ROBERT ALTMAN The movies set the pattern, and these people have copied the movies,
ROBERT ALTMAN That's the way those guys prefer to work down there.
ROBERT ALTMAN And I said, 'You know, we should do your show, and you should write it. Because it's your humor, it'...
ROBERT ALTMAN A Prairie Home Companion.
ROBERT ALTMAN If you don't have a leg to stand on, you can't put your foot down.
ROBERT ALTMAN When I see an American flag flying, it's a joke.
ROBERT ALTMAN I'm here, I think, under kind of false pretenses, and I think I have to become straight with you. Te...
ROBERT ALTMAN We're not against each other. They sell shoes and I make gloves.
ROBERT ALTMAN It's a process that I don't believe in, ... And I don't think it's correct for my kind of films.
ROBERT ALTMAN It's all just one film to me. Just different chapters.
ROBERT ALTMAN How dare we continue to show this kind of mass destruction in movies,
ROBERT ALTMAN Set a clear, easy-to-understand vision for your company, and make it be a mission people believe in.
SAM ALTMAN I think you can say a lot of evil behavior by companies is short-term optimization.
SAM ALTMAN Technology magnifies differences, and it's been replacing or obviating jobs for a long time. But...
SAM ALTMAN I think extreme secrecy is a bad sign in all startups. Very few startups die because they tell you e...
SAM ALTMAN Intelligence is usually easy to tell in a 10-minute conversation. Determination is harder.
SAM ALTMAN People are incredible creatures of habit.
SAM ALTMAN I love working with really early stage startups where the outcome is still in doubt. Maybe they'...
SAM ALTMAN People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.
SAM ALTMAN One of the things we urge Y-Combinator companies to do is to have profitability in grasp. If you nee...
SAM ALTMAN Making money is often more fun than spending it, though I personally have never regretted money I...
SAM ALTMAN I think the mistake people make most often when they invest in other kinds of startups is they say, ...
SAM ALTMAN I believe that sexism in tech is a real problem.
SAM ALTMAN You really want a company full of missionaries, not mercenaries.
SAM ALTMAN The Loopt mobile app is all about giving you the latest local deals and insider tips.
SAM ALTMAN I believe in the future, and to be a good investor, you have to believe in the future.
SAM ALTMAN The only way to generate sustained exponential growth is to make whatever you're making sufficie...
SAM ALTMAN AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there'll be grea...
SAM ALTMAN I suppose if I didn't have Loopt, I'd have to, I don't know, pick up the phone and just ...
SAM ALTMAN There is a lot of stuff I like. I love backpacking. I love going to an island where I can just sit o...
SAM ALTMAN Don't hire for the sake of hiring. Hire because there is no other way to do what you want to do.
SAM ALTMAN Everyone is looking for the hack, the secret to success without hard work.
SAM ALTMAN Both the Moral Majority, who are recycling medieval language to explain AIDS, and those ultra-leftis...
DENNIS ALTMAN Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our ow...
SIDNEY ALTMAN Never put your family, friends, or significant other low on your priority list. Prefer a handful of ...
SAM ALTMAN The point of an accelerator is to teach you about companies and business, not about technology.
SAM ALTMAN Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large competitors.
SAM ALTMAN Don't let yourself make excuses for not doing the things you want to do.
SAM ALTMAN On the destination list of Washington, ... you'll have the MCI Center area, Georgetown and, now, boo...
ANDREW ALTMAN I wouldn't leave if I thought that the sky was falling, ... I think the foundation is there. The ins...
ANDREW ALTMAN We want more than just a ballpark. Our goal is to create a whole district and a destination.
ANDREW ALTMAN Andrew Altman full employment act.
ANDREW ALTMAN I've invested a lot here,
ANDREW ALTMAN [He announced last week that he is leaving in three weeks to take a private-sector job in New York f...
ANDREW ALTMAN Congratulations is a societal burp that follows a positive act. When you graduate AA, you get a cong...
MARA ALTMAN For most of the early hires you make in a startup, experience doesn't matter very much, and you ...
SAM ALTMAN There's this famous observation that I totally believe: Great startup ideas are the ones that li...
SAM ALTMAN If a lending institution is faced with bids for a package of toxic assets that are less than the car...
ROGER ALTMAN Anonymity breeds meanness.
SAM ALTMAN The 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession that followed have had devastating effects on the ...
ROGER ALTMAN There are a lot of anachronisms in Washington, but the need to periodically raise the debt limit by ...
ROGER ALTMAN We had a couple 70-degree days.
JOE ALTMAN This is our pride and joy, right here. There's Butter Crunch (lettuce) on the right, spinach in the ...
JOE ALTMAN Even on the coldest days, with sunshine, we have to crack open the top.
JOE ALTMAN It works exceedingly well. We have the perfect spot on the rise.
JOE ALTMAN The company's intent was to cap their costs on health care, and the company came back to the union a...
DAVE ALTMAN This is the first in a long time.
DAVE ALTMAN It's not that often you see a contract settle without concessions in this day and age. (At the last ...
DAVE ALTMAN In the past, the company had always been the only party that went looking for insurance coverage, an...
DAVE ALTMAN There have been temporary successes, but always health care costs have bounced back with a vengeance...
DREW ALTMAN There are lots of things on the table, but there's nothing that will have a significant impact on th...
DREW ALTMAN If health insurance was working properly, the sicker you are, the more protection you would have. It...
DREW ALTMAN The cost of health care is going up much faster than people's wages. Families are paying about (on a...
DREW ALTMAN The positive drum beat has caught up with the negative one. But on an individual basis, most seniors...
DREW ALTMAN It is low-wage workers who are being hurt the most by the steady drip, drip, drip of coverage draini...
DREW ALTMAN It is low-wage workers who are being hurt the most by the steady drip, drip, drip of coverage draini...
DREW ALTMAN The point is that when they talk about quality of health care, patients mean something entirely diff...
DREW ALTMAN This is a slow but perceptible fraying of our employment-based system, ... what I call the drip, dri...
DREW ALTMAN A substantial number of beneficiaries are already enrolled, but a lot turns on what those who are on...
DREW ALTMAN I think we're right where we need to be before league.
EVERETT ALTMAN I've never hit a ball that far that didn't go over a fence. I think it really got us going and helpe...
EVERETT ALTMAN We know that we can do anything. We can score runs and we've come back from deficits before. We just...
EVERETT ALTMAN This is tougher than any loss that we've had this year. It doesn't feel good to lose that streak. We...
EVERETT ALTMAN It's hard to say a month out what your league deserves, but we've got six teams playing pretty good ...
DANA ALTMAN We wanted him to play. We thought we had a chance to have a decent team, and we knew he was a big pa...
DANA ALTMAN We've gone through years where we've had really good teams at the top, but I'm not sure we've had a ...
DANA ALTMAN Anthony worked his tail off. He had a great spring, summer and fall. So he's had some success becaus...
DANA ALTMAN When we have an opportunity to play the larger schools, they see the difference is just not there. B...
DANA ALTMAN That's probably the third game they've won for us this year. The crowd wouldn't let us quit.
DANA ALTMAN When [Tatum] hit those three in a row, it really got them going. We weren't able to get back in it. ...
DANA ALTMAN He misses playing. He prepared really hard for his senior year. It has been tough on him.
DANA ALTMAN You're always disappointed but I wasn't shocked. I felt we were probably a win or two short. That's ...
DANA ALTMAN They've won a lot of games in a lot of different ways. Buzzer-beaters, last-second shots. We've had ...
DANA ALTMAN See he doesn't respect you. He said attorneys can reach a better decision. His ideas seem liberal an...
DAN ALTMAN I've been an attorney, residing in Ellis County for 10 years. And like most of you my experience goe...
DAN ALTMAN Jury nullification allowed citizens to come together and override the law. It is their right to acqu...
DAN ALTMAN I want to serve for three reasons. I'm tough on crime, I apply civil law in a fair and predictable m...
DAN ALTMAN Reasonable mergers generate substantial synergies, so that provides for earnings and cash-flow growt...
ROGER ALTMAN My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study p...
SIDNEY ALTMAN The Fed is the major U.S. firefighter. It's not the Treasury. It's not the Congress. We cert...
ROGER ALTMAN That culture of frugality and discipline is really important for the Y Combinator mindset.
SAM ALTMAN When Xi Jinping came to power, there were a series of hints that market-based capitalism would be al...
ROGER ALTMAN Virgin America flyers tend to be more likely to be using a mobile device and tapping social networks...
SAM ALTMAN If you have the opportunity to go be an early employee at a company that's just going crazy, and...
SAM ALTMAN Generally, you want to raise capital either when you have to or when it's really easy. If the co...
SAM ALTMAN Many Russia experts note the deep and sad capacity of the Russian people for suffering.
ROGER ALTMAN Women's sexuality has a lot to do with intimacy. It has a lot to do not so much with foreplay so muc...
ALAN ALTMAN It was from them that I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if o...
SIDNEY ALTMAN There are so many things that go into it. The kind of power play that goes on between the two of you...
ALAN ALTMAN Men are very goal-oriented. They believe in the hereafter. An orgasm is what they are here after.
ALAN ALTMAN China is beginning to act more like a world citizen. We need China to be more active on the world st...
ROGER ALTMAN Those are the worst ones. Those are the hardest ones to make -- you're wide open. But luckily it fel...
ASHLEY ALTMAN If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone...
SAM ALTMAN Mergers generate substantial synergies.
ROGER ALTMAN She kept looking back at me. The last time she looked back and she winked at me.
ASHLEY ALTMAN Wonderful -- that's the best defensive game we've ever played as a team. They flash and flash and fl...
ASHLEY ALTMAN Real GDP growth has been relatively healthy, but most Americans don't feel it. It's a transformative...
ROGER ALTMAN Ed is a visionary. He has a very long-term point of view and he knows exactly what he believes in. Y...
ROGER ALTMAN We feel there are about eight projects which we feel wouldn't have advanced without New Jobs for New...
ROGER ALTMAN He has a real conviction as to how the telecom market and technology are going to evolve, and a real...
ROGER ALTMAN I'm not sure we have a great team. But we've got six awfully good ones.
DANA ALTMAN There will be no whining or complaining from us.
DANA ALTMAN Brian has been ready for this opportunity for a long time. He's always done an outstanding job for m...
DANA ALTMAN I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.
SIDNEY ALTMAN I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily f...
SIDNEY ALTMAN I should mention that while I was growing up, Einstein was presented as a worthy role model for a yo...
SIDNEY ALTMAN However, it was made clear to the first generation of Canadian-born children that the path to opport...
SIDNEY ALTMAN Furthermore, neither of our research groups set out in search of RNA catalysis.
SIDNEY ALTMAN For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.
SIDNEY ALTMAN Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in ...
SIDNEY ALTMAN By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable...
SIDNEY ALTMAN At the MRC laboratory I started the work that led to the discovery of RNase P and the enzymatic prop...
SIDNEY ALTMAN About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first t...
SIDNEY ALTMAN Once these licenses get issued (in China), then we expect there will be rapid deployment there.
STEVE ALTMAN R&D is certainly a significant factor there.
STEVE ALTMAN It is ironic that these companies claim that Qualcomm's behavior has harmful effects on the mobile t...
STEVE ALTMAN It would take some time and would depend on carrier interest,
STEVE ALTMAN We are willing to license these patents on fair and reasonable terms,
STEVE ALTMAN We plan to meet with the Commission very soon to begin the process of providing the facts that dispr...
STEVE ALTMAN The jury was confused and did not know what they were doing.
STEVE ALTMAN [The Breen news] came right out of space, ... That was the last thing I was expecting to hear this a...
STEVE ALTMAN Our director of education focuses on finding innovating and interactive experiences. It's hands-on, ...
SCOTT ALTMAN As the commander, I've realized that going through the whole training flow, your focus really widens...
SCOTT ALTMAN Watching the sunrise and sunset, and the way it illuminated the solar arrays on the service module w...
SCOTT ALTMAN Welcome back to Earth after a fantastic flight.
SCOTT ALTMAN Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a fe...
SIDNEY ALTMAN Housing works like a trampoline. When it is pushed down far enough and long enough, it will eventual...
ROGER ALTMAN Being a public company is really terrible for most companies. I'd say Facebook and Google have d...
SAM ALTMAN The 2008 economic crisis and Great Recession forced widespread restructuring throughout the U.S. eco...
ROGER ALTMAN The idea that America, whose oil production has been declining for the past 40 years, is now on trac...
ROGER ALTMAN a slow but perceptible deterioration of our employer-based (health insurance) system.
DREW ALTMAN The good news is the rate of increase in health care costs is down, ... The bad news is that's the o...
DREW ALTMAN Tech companies tend to do tech best.
SAM ALTMAN The way to build billion dollar companies is to first build something people love. There isn't r...
SAM ALTMAN I was of course discussing the book of Leviticus. I don't know why your mind is so filthy these days...
MARSHA ALTMAN I didn't say what kind of book. You have a foul mind Bingley."
"Don't mock me on my sister's we...
MARSHA ALTMAN We are united in the hope that every individual will someday enjoy at least the intellectual privile...
SIDNEY ALTMAN I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.
ROBERT BENCHLEY In the next couple of years, part of every film's process is going to be to adjust the images. A...
ROBERT ZEMECKIS A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins...
ROBERT FROST Robots may cut down on infection and mean a consultant can see more patients, but wouldn't you r...
ROBERT WINSTON I was always handsome under all the fat.
ROBERT ILER In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into d...
ROBERT HASS Just like any business is a living, breathing thing, an entrepreneur has to be able to adapt over ti...
ROBERT HERJAVEC Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, missio...
ROBERT KIYOSAKI It's 5 P.M. at the office. Working fast, you've finished your tasks for the day and want to ...
ROBERT POZEN The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations th...
ROBERT SMITHSON I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the ...
ROBERT KNEPPER Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the per...
ROBERT HALF In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the condit...
ROBERT KENNEDY I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, basebal...
ROBERT KENNEDY Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of conte...
ROBERT KENNEDY Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.'
ROBERT KENNEDY I have told friends and supporters who are urging me to run that I would not oppose President Johnso...
ROBERT KENNEDY It is one thing to open the schools to all children regardless of race. It is another to train the t...
ROBERT KENNEDY Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty,...
ROBERT KENNEDY A high standard of living cannot remain the exclusive possession of the West - and the sooner we can...
ROBERT KENNEDY If I get to be president, what can I do anyway? With Congress and the press, what chance do I have t...
ROBERT KENNEDY Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedo...
ROBERT KENNEDY Satellite communications connect television screens in Japan with television cameras in England, and...
ROBERT KENNEDY To the extent that laws are founded on morality and on logic, they can lead men's hearts and min...
ROBERT KENNEDY I am ashamed to report that my father, who is 73, has never been beaten by any of his four sons in g...
ROBERT KENNEDY Let me make it clear that the Youth Employment Opportunities Act of 1961 is not primarily concerned ...
ROBERT KENNEDY Our scientists grapple with the difficulties of placing a man on the moon, but the immediately troub...
ROBERT KENNEDY American books reflect our common heritage with many other nations and their influence upon our cult...
ROBERT KENNEDY Within the United States, we have put great emphasis upon political freedoms. Because it has been ou...
ROBERT KENNEDY In the long run, a flexible sentencing procedure which works to rehabilitate offenders offers the be...
ROBERT KENNEDY It is easy to overlook the importance of the young in underdeveloped countries. It is the natural co...
ROBERT KENNEDY The ultimate relationship between justice and law will be an eternal subject for speculation and ana...
ROBERT KENNEDY Freedom possesses many meanings. It speaks not merely in terms of political and religious liberty bu...
ROBERT KENNEDY I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about i...
ROBERT KENNEDY The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.
ROBERT KENNEDY Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in...
ROBERT KENNEDY

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