Matthew Desmond Quotes

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• We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Hands
  • Our
  • Asleep

• A new untruth is better than an old truth.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Truth
  • Better
  • Truth Is

• Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Business
  • City
  • Identity

• It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Art
  • Movement
  • Museum

• 'The Truth About Lorin Jones' will undoubtedly shock and offend as many readers as it will amuse, since it dares to make fun of feminism - of its manners, if not its politics.

  

  Edmund White
  • Truth
  • Fun
  • Politics

• It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Military
  • Relate

• I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Words
  • Movies
  • Other

• The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • People
  • Government
  • Lies

• My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Music
  • Dad
  • Kind

• If you don't vote, you don't count.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • You
  • Vote
  • Count

• We are filmmakers, and we are specifically trying to entertain people.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Trying
  • Entertain

• Sometimes, by using the most over-the-top, ridiculous plot device you can imagine, you get some interesting little conflicts and cool things that you might not otherwise have a chance to explore.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Interesting
  • Cool
  • Chance

• If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.

  

  Rachel Ticotin
  • Money
  • Home
  • Yourself

• I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong!

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Mind
  • Honesty
  • Prove

• I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Money
  • She
  • Mother

• The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Me
  • Woman
  • Interest

• I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Life
  • America
  • Architecture

• Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to write a good song.

  

  T-Pain
  • Good
  • Work
  • Mind

• Here in L.A., there are a lot of dead spots, and you have to drive to find energy, but all of India is so energetic.

  

  Chris Kattan
  • Energy

• Jerry Cantrell Missing Lost Friend, Moving On With Trip. MTV News (July 1, 2002).

  

  Jerry Cantrell
  • Lost
  • Friend
  • Moving

• For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Man
  • Flower
  • Bird

• The game is just, everybody talks about baseball, but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.

  

  Joe Montana
  • American
  • Game
  • Feeling

• My heart is with the WNBA. I've had success in the league, I've loved the league. I'm a true fan of the league.

  

  Anne Donovan
  • Heart
  • True
  • Success

• There are moving companies specializing in evictions, their crews working all day, every weekday.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Moving