Matthew Desmond Quotes
I want my work to influence public conversation, to turn heads, and to bear witness to this problem that's raging in our cities. If journalism helps me with that, I'll draw on journalism... and I'm not going to worry too much if academics get troubled over that distinction.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.
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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
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What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
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If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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My impression of Americans from the beginning is of the best, and I have never since had cause to alter my mind. They are a kind, sympathetic race of people and naturally proud of their country.
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You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree.
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If Japanese cannot have new babies quick enough, then the government should start importing workers faster.
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If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems we must eventually declare Earth and all of its resources as the common heritage of all the world's people.
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I know all the critics.
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Every so often, I'll get an idea from a dream, but most of the time, ideas come to me while I'm toiling away at the keyboard just like every other writer.
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The Atonement is our singular hope for a meaningful life.
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I want my work to influence public conversation, to turn heads, and to bear witness to this problem that's raging in our cities. If journalism helps me with that, I'll draw on journalism... and I'm not going to worry too much if academics get troubled over that distinction.
