Matthew Desmond Quotes

The home is the center of life - a refuge from the grind of work, pressure of school, menace of the streets, a place to be ourselves.

Matthew Desmond

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• I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • Work
  • Never
  • Everything

• 'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Home

• I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • School
  • Think
  • Hand

• I really feel that the best actors out there are very centric. They're really connected. They're not in a, 'What about me' state, and I think that's a good lesson in life.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Life
  • Good
  • Best

• I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• We had a few non-fiction books at home, but my dad was of the opinion that fiction was a complete and utter waste of time because it wasn't real - so what was the point of reading it?

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Time
  • Real
  • Home

• The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Life
  • Live
  • Past

• How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Work
  • City
  • How

• Levi's can produce many more Western jeans than we can and make them at a better price.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Better
  • Price
  • Jeans

• On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States; they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Great
  • Reality
  • Political

• There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• Popping broad beans out of their skins can be therapeutic, but it isn't everybody's favourite waste of time.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Waste
  • Waste Of Time

• My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Life
  • Family
  • Love

• I'm not partial to any system, but at the same time, I'm a Korean actor, so I expect to work mainly on Korean projects.

  

  Doona Bae
  • Work
  • Actor
  • Korean

• I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Life
  • Up
  • Dream

• For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Life
  • Years
  • Insurance

• Home is the nicest word there is.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Home
  • Word
  • Nicest

• When you're a famous, successful person at 16 years old, the rules change for you. Everybody is doing things for you to make life easier so you can go out and play. And I think you miss out on lot of growing up and a lot of reality checks.

  

  Chris Evert
  • Life
  • Up
  • Reality

• I feel pain everywhere. A lot of guys in chairs do feel their legs. But if you don't, there's a thing called disreflex, so you know if something happens, say, you can't feel your foot or your leg and your body reacts. You know something's not right and you survey what's going on.

  

  Mark Zupan
  • Pain

• I think you need something to take care of in order to figure out who you are as a person, and in that way, being a dad has levelled me out more than anything. You've just got to be good for that person no matter what's going on in your head that day.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • Good
  • Dad

• 3D printing will massively reduce the cost of certain products as the cost of labor is removed.

  

  Peter Diamandis

• Indians have very good engineering capabilities, and that is why, if an industry focuses on innovation, you will have a far greater chance of success, rather than the model which is based on just being a production machine.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Good
  • Why
  • Success

• The home is the center of life - a refuge from the grind of work, pressure of school, menace of the streets, a place to be ourselves.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Life
  • Work
  • School