Dan Schulman Quotes
Payments is a hard business. It's a messy business, with not necessarily the largest of margins.
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I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
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Being evil is easy.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.
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Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.
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I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
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It's brutal out on the football field.
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Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
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People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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A system must be managed. It will not manage itself. Left to themselves in the Western world, components become selfish, competitive, independent profit centres, and thus destroy the system. . . . The secret is cooperation between components toward the aim of the organization. We can not afford the destructive effect of competition.
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You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
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In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
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I was very obsessed with my music, and I think that, as a young girl, I really wanted to get into this business, and I don't think my parents really knew how to protect me.
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Payments is a hard business. It's a messy business, with not necessarily the largest of margins.
