Matthew Desmond Quotes
You lose your home, you lose your community, you lose your school, you lose your stuff.
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.
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I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.
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I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business, and I still have stuff to do at their house.
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Central bankers have had enormous responsibilities thrust on them to compensate, essentially, for the failings of the political system. And my worry is we don't have sufficient tools to do that, but we're not willing to say it.
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Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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I think of the prisoners on 'Orange Is the New Black,' a lot of times, as uplifting.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
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There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.
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Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.
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I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
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Don't try to be what you're not. If you're nervous, be nervous. If you're shy, be shy. It's cute.
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I just assumed that if you were a girl-child, you were supposed to grow up and write.
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You can't do God's work without suffering.
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These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.
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If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.
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You lose your home, you lose your community, you lose your school, you lose your stuff.
