Matthew Desmond Quotes
Public-sector union organisers have told me about how firefighters, police officers, and nurses can no longer afford to live in the cities they serve and protect.
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I would like my kids to study well.
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A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
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The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.
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People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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The Iraqis are not threatened by the Turks or by the Iranians or by the Saudis and they tell me that these are not weapons of mass destruction, they are weapons of self-destruction.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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I love comedy; I'm very goofy and spontaneous.
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I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.
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I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.
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We're all idealistic when young.
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Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.
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As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.
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Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way.
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We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.
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You can't tell what's aboard a container ship. We carried every kind of cargo, all of it on view: a police car, penicillin, Johnnie Walker Red, toilets, handguns, lumber, Ping-Pong balls, and IBM data cards.
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Public-sector union organisers have told me about how firefighters, police officers, and nurses can no longer afford to live in the cities they serve and protect.
