Matthew Desmond Quotes
I have always been really troubled by the amount of poverty in America. Americans are matched in their rich democracy with the depth and expanse of poverty. That's really always unsettled me.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
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I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
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When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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The underdog winning is the romantic position.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.
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When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?
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Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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There was the scientific and technical progress which couldn't be predicted by the state.
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To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
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Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is, 'We are above that now. We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just provincial. We stand for something.' I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above - above the world. He's sort of God. He's going to bring all different sides together.
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I don't think it is ever enough for a governing majority to simply be opposed to things. We have to be for things.
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I have always been really troubled by the amount of poverty in America. Americans are matched in their rich democracy with the depth and expanse of poverty. That's really always unsettled me.
