Matthew Desmond Quotes
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Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.
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Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
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But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.
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If I don't fight McGregor, I still have a good life.
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Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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Coach Lue always amazed me. I'm like, 'How do you have this much joy coming out of life? You have money, but you don't drink; you don't smoke. All you do is hoop, and you live on a natural high.' But now I know.
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You must acquire the habits and skills of managing a small amount of money before you can have a large amount. Remember, we are creatures of habit and, therefore, the habit of managing your money is more important than the amount.
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A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
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When you make a movie independently, you raise the money beforehand, and then you make the movie kind of by yourself.
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The first comic I ever read was an 'X-Men' themed anti-smoking PSA they gave out in health class when I was about 10.
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Getting older and adjusting to all the things that biologically happen to you is not easy to do and is a constant struggle and adjustment.
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War implies a lack of comprehension of mutual national interests; it means the undermining and even the end of culture.
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It's only a matter of time before the English clubs become a lot more competitive in Europe, if not dominant, because our league is, by far, the richest league in the world.
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There is nothing quite like having your book read and truly understood. It's all the better when it's someone who knows how to go out there and sell it.
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It's not the experience that happens to you: it's what you do with the experience that happens to you.
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Anyone who knows me, knows that I am not afraid of anything.
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I'm dealing with soft targets, and it's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee.
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No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.
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Most films, when you finish as an actor, you just go home.
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You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.
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To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.
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I've been in contact with Marshal Badoglio. We agree that Italy must be saved from the abyss toward which Fascism is driving her. If we depose Mussolini, however, the new government should do nothing drastic to upset Hitler until we can secretly negotiate an armistice with the Allies.
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The things you're closest to are often the things you know least about.
