Matthew Desmond Quotes
It is very rare in the life of an intellectual to see your support network show up all at once.
Matthew Desmond
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
Xavier Becerra
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
Samuel Goldwyn
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
Sam Worthington
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In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.
Nathaniel Rich
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
Vanessa Kerry
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Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
Ramana Maharshi
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I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to practise Buddhism, which is a levelling experience for me, and there hasn't been a day I've missed in 40 years. I apply it to everything - to my work and relationships. I try to be a compassionate person.
Patrick Duffy
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In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.
Ian Anderson
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I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, science and religion, but not to think too much about yourself.
A. S. Byatt
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Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I'm trying to do more. When I'm singing, I don't want you to just hear the melody. I want you to relive the story, because most of the songs have pretty good storytelling.
B. B. King
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
W. H. Auden
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When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
F. Sionil Jose
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Whatever's going on in my life shows up in the writing room.
Sam Hunt
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College was such a pivotal time for me. It's a time when you have so much growth, and you kind of can choose one of many different paths.
Blake Griffin
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The new spirituality will step away from dogma, will step away from 'We're right and you're wrong.'
Neale Donald Walsch
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One has to fill up the heart with Knowledge. The Knowledge has a form that’s called 'upadesh' (nt: sub–country; also teaching, instruction). There are many countries such as England, Germany, and India, but Knowledge is not this kind of country. This country is something different. Knowledge is the thing that when it is realized, a person becomes free.
Prem Rawat
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In conflict zones in particular, we need personnel who wear the badge of the United States, are a part of our official military command, and are always held accountable for their actions.
Jan Schakowsky
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It is very rare in the life of an intellectual to see your support network show up all at once.
Matthew Desmond