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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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 you're given an 'SI' cover, and you take advantage of it, you can conquer the world. Look at Chrissy Teigen. Look at Tyra Banks. Look at Kathy Ireland.
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I support development and deployment of a limited national missile defense. Few if any of our duties surpass our obligation to provide for the common defense of our nation.
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I grew up in an agricultural family, and I never distanced myself from where the food comes from. I think it's quite natural.
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I am in fact a hobbit in all but size. I like gardens, trees and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food unrefrigerated.
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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.
