Matthew Desmond Quotes

Differences in homeownership rates remain the prime driver of the nation's racial wealth gap.

Matthew Desmond

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• In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Time
  • America
  • Fear

• I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Work
  • Decision
  • Protect

• Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Responsibility

• I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • School
  • Know

• I think I'm a very intuitive actress.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Think
  • Very
  • Actress

• I moved to Dallas in 1975 and stayed there until 1980. That's when I decided it was time to move to L.A.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Time
  • Move
  • Dallas

• Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have independent, varying interests, sometimes opposed to each other.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Different
  • Sometimes
  • Independent

• Both European and American historians have done away with any conceptual limits on what in the past needs and deserves investigating. The result, among other things, has been a flood of works on gender history, black history, and ethnic history of all kinds.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Done
  • American
  • History

• I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • School
  • Loved
  • Classmates

• There's a lot of people desperately seeking to find 'the one,' and I think we should learn to be more at peace with ourselves.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • People
  • Peace
  • Learn

• We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.

  

  Yoweri Museveni
  • Fight
  • Now
  • Foot

• A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Me
  • Books
  • Glory

• Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and enslaved in the Sudan.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Home
  • Black
  • Fate

• I am very confident about my work because I have worked very hard.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Work
  • Hard
  • Confident

• It's not that I don't feel bad about it. It's just that I don't feel worse today than what I felt yesterday.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Bad
  • Today

• The only antidote to the magic of images is the magic of words.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Words
  • Magic

• Let us redeem our great words from base uses. Let that no longer call itself Love, which knows that it is not free!

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Great
  • Free
  • Words

• Oh! why should woman ever love,Trusting to one false star above;And fling her little chance awayOf sunshine for its treacherous ray.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Why
  • Star
  • Sunshine

• My mother enjoyed acting as well with my father, who used to direct her in plays at his regiment. My sister is an excellent singer. However, it was only me who decided to pursue acting as a career.

  

  Ajay Mehta
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Career

• I'm an incredibly emotional person, but I always feel bad about that. The work is therapy... I need to emote wildly while I write. I weep. I'll laugh, get excited, and get up and pace. I try to take the emotional journey with the characters.

  

  Matthew Quick
  • Up
  • Work
  • Bad

• Every band should study Queen at Live Aid. If you really feel like that barrier is gone, you become Freddie Mercury. I consider him the greatest frontman of all time. Like, it's funny? You'd imagine that Freddie was more than human, but... You know how he controlled Wembley Stadium at Live Aid in 1985? He stood up there and did his vocal warm ups with the audience. Something that intimate, where they realize, 'Oh yeah, he's just a f***ing dude.'

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Funny
  • Audience
  • Consider

• As you have seen today we tried a new front wing for example in the morning. So far the car is doing what we expect from it so it’s great to see this correlation so I’m very happy.

  

  Andreas Seidl
  • Happy
  • Expect
  • Correlation

• Differences in homeownership rates remain the prime driver of the nation's racial wealth gap.

  

  Matthew Desmond