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.

Matthew Desmond

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• I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Country
  • Childhood
  • Been

• If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Genius
  • Just
  • Wait

• I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Enemy
  • Negro
  • Laboring Class

• There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.

  

  Iman
  • Want
  • Create
  • Follow

• 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.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Experience

• 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.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Men
  • Society
  • Military

• The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Truth
  • English
  • Lies

• To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Long
  • Children
  • Young

• My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Up
  • Family
  • Money

• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Creative
  • Depression

• I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Small
  • Babies
  • Gothic

• Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Feel
  • Wrong

• 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.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Think
  • Kind

• We have a choice - we can both think and feel, using our heads and our hearts.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Think
  • Feel
  • Choice

• 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.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Home
  • View
  • Debt

• 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.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Christian
  • Humanity

• The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.

  

  Yash Chopra
  • Great
  • Love
  • Food

• I have a big problem with people who glamorize dumbness and demonize education and intellect. And I'm giving a pretty good description of Sarah Palin right now.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Good
  • Pretty

• I love the way my weight fluctuates in the newspapers. It was 18 stone and then people look at a bad picture of me and add a few more stone on. I think the highest was 22 stone.

  

  Johnny Vegas
  • People
  • Bad
  • Picture

• For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for. Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes. Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Men
  • Children
  • Money

• Food is the new Internet.

  

  Kimbal Musk
  • Food

• At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call, skim it for their own reward and then lock the rest up in volatile, insecure and illiquid loans that at times they cannot redeem without public aid.

  

  James Buchan
  • Up
  • Money
  • Heart

• 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.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Food
  • Organization
  • Homeless