Matthew Desmond Quotes
Home is the center of life. It's the wellspring of personhood. It's where we say we're ourselves.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.
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I like to discover new things.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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The Church has never changed its teaching on the sanctity of human life - it didn't make up a rule for the convenience of a particular time like a rule at a country club as the Governor would have us believe.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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I think we should balance the federal budget tomorrow. I'm optimistic. I think Americans are optimistic. We went to the moon; we can balance the federal budget.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.
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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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I don't think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.
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TV's been good to me.
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It is not part of the functions of the national government to find employment for people - and if we were to appropriate a hundred millions for this purpose, we should be taxing forty millions of people to keep a few thousand employed.
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And it's here and it's ready and we can really revolutionize the way we educate our children with tablet computers, and I'm committed to doing whatever I can to speaking to whomever I can to send this signal - to pound this message home. Now is the time.
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I have more love in my life than I ever dreamed or imagined.
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I grew up poor and used to look at people in big houses and thought they had everything. Then later on I looked at models in magazines and thought they had it all.
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English country life is more like Chekhov than 'The Archers' or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared.
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Home is the center of life. It's the wellspring of personhood. It's where we say we're ourselves.
