Matthew Desmond Quotes
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I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
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I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
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We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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On the taxing of banks, we have to find the level at which they squeal but still pay and open up the next day.
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Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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Proust is a huge author for me.
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My fans don't feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I'm going through now, they'll hear about it on a record someday. They'll hear the real story. There's a little bit of lag time. It's not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it's much more accurate.
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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Where there is Torah it sustains the world.
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Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.
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Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?
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I'm a folk singer-songwriter. I am pretty poppy though.
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There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.
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'Portlandia' is the most fun show. When I get a breakdown of what the arc of the story is going to be, I could never in my wildest dreams anticipate the direction.
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I don't take a second for granted of the honor of representing country music.
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How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?
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And there is not anything in the world stronger than tenderness.
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I left college with a deep sense that I needed to understand poverty more.
