Matthew Desmond Quotes
I started a student organization that was basically designed to connect students with homeless folks. We visited them and sometimes brought food, but mostly we were there for swapping stories.
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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
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If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.
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I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
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Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
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To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.
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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.
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We have a choice - we can both think and feel, using our heads and our hearts.
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A lot of the Republicans wanted exactly what Barack Obama wanted, exactly what Nancy Pelosi wanted, exactly what Harry Reid wanted, which is to raise the debt ceiling, but they wanted to be able to tell what they view as their foolish, gullible constituents back home they didn't do it.
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We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole.
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The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.
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When I was playing the game we never had the benefit of TV or video to analyse our techniques or look at faults, we depended on other cricketers to watch us and then tell us what they thought we were doing wrong.
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I said from the very beginning, I don't want a big house, I don't want big grounds, I don't want the trouble with the maintenance and all of that.
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Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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I started a student organization that was basically designed to connect students with homeless folks. We visited them and sometimes brought food, but mostly we were there for swapping stories.
