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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Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
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Being evil is easy.
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I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That's what ignites the imagination.
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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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I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.
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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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The U.S. is a complex country. It has a high predominance of immigrants who have been eminently successful.
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I used to spend my holidays there in my grandparents' large family house, with my numerous cousins. When I die, I am going to be buried in the village cemetery.
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I went to college when I was 27, and somehow, between high school and college, I became obsessed with getting A's. I can tell you exactly how many non-A's I had, and tell you honestly that I cried every time!
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Just because you're interested in what jihad is doesn't mean you intend to join.
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Payments is a hard business. It's a messy business, with not necessarily the largest of margins.
