Matthew Desmond Quotes
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The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.
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It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.
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What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.
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I tend to be really competitive when it comes to Scattergories.
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I went to the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU and wrote and directed a small amount of stuff there.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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I've shot a lot of pilots that have never seen the light of day, jobs that have fallen apart or gotten canceled, so I'm really weary about what contracts I sign and where I swear my loyalty to.
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Outside of 'Justified,' I do like to keep it to comedy. When I'm not there, I try to seek out stuff that sort of more along the lighter fare. I have more fun on those sets than I do on drama sets just because when it's heavy, it's heavy, and it's hard to get away from it.
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There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.
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I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard to have one extreme opinion a month. I don't know how these columnists have two or three ideas a week; I was having difficulty having 12 things to say a year.
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All of my walls are covered with framed pictures of my friends.
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Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific.
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Neuroplasticity research showed that the brain changes its very structure with each different activity it performs, perfecting its circuits so it is better suited to the task at hand.
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
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My mama just accepted everybody with open arms. Everybody knew her.
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This high-end, novelistic form of TV, you know, is just peppered with despicable people who do marvelous things and marvelous people who do despicable things.
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If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar.
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One of my beliefs is that there are certain institutions within a community which stand for the spirit and heart of that community, there's the church, the local football team, the local pub and the theatre.
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I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.
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My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.
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I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.
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Housing being a top-order issue for cities is something that's not trivial.
