Matthew Desmond Quotes

When I was confronted with just the bare facts of poverty and inequality in America, it always disturbed and confused me.

Matthew Desmond

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• Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • World
  • Long
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• If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • People
  • Country
  • Enemy

• I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.

  

  Laura San Giacomo
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Physics

• The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.

  

  Candace Camp
  • Good
  • Great
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• Anyone can call himself a promoter. Anyone can call himself a promoter and stage a fight. Unlike other professional sports, whose owners collude out of mutual interest in their sport's image and general welfare, there are no real alliances or partnerships in boxing.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Real
  • Sports
  • Professional

• One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Business
  • High

• Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Know
  • Famous

• Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Bad
  • Sex
  • Clothes

• When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • School
  • Greatest

• I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Times
  • Many
  • Performed

• The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Complexity
  • Explode

• Growing up, I was into 'Power Rangers.'

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • Up
  • Power
  • Growing

• Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Good
  • Power
  • Idea

• I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Hope
  • Relationship
  • Our

• The United States being a limited form of government, one of the restrictions to which it is subject is in regard to its power to levy taxes. The States may levy them for a great many purposes for which Congress cannot, because to the States belong all of the powers not delegated to Congress.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Great
  • May
  • Power

• If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Kids
  • Help
  • Success

• For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend the nursing community for their contributions to our national health delivery system.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • May
  • Opportunity
  • Community

• I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.

  

  Fleur East
  • Up
  • Family
  • Home

• I wanted the opportunity to play for Tom Osborne. Here we are in the locker room at half-time, gathering around Coach Osborne. It grows quiet, and I'll never forget what he said. He said, 'Let's get this over with.'

  

  Jeff Fortenberry
  • Time
  • Opportunity

• 'Gigabit' seems to mean 600 megabits. It's a VAX gigabit.

  

  Ken Thompson

• To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education is always about relationships. Great teachers are not just instructors and test administrators. They are mentors, coaches, motivators, and lifelong sources of inspiration to their students. Teaching is an art form. Great teachers know they have to cultivate curiosity, passion and creativity in their students.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Art
  • Education
  • Passion

• If we are interested in Christ by faith, notwithstanding our imperfections and sins, God will be our God through grace.

  

  Adoniram Judson
  • God
  • Faith

• Success emerges from the quality of the decisions we make and the quantity of luck we receive. We can't control luck. But we can control the way we make choices.

  

  Chip Heath
  • Quality
  • Decision
  • Choices

• When I was confronted with just the bare facts of poverty and inequality in America, it always disturbed and confused me.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • America
  • Poverty
  • Confused