Matthew Desmond Quotes
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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
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It's absolutely critical that we not only provide support from cradle to career in the education system but also the wraparound services.
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The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.
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The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.
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Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'
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I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.
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Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
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It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
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Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special.
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If someone doesn't have a reason to not like you in America, they talk politics or religion. Then they get to hate you and we get to be enemies.
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No TV, no acting for me. I'm kind of a more behind-the-scenes kind of woman even though what I do is very public. I'm really low-key and I don't need to be the center of attention.
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When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.
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He said there is 80 of us, ready to come down and the next thing I knew is that Jo Brown dashed in and said your family has already moved and you have to move, the boat is ready to take you out. I didn't have time to ask, even ask a question.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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You must read Plato. But you must hold him at arm's length and say, 'Plato, you have delighted and edified mankind for two thousand years. What have you to say to me?'
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All his leisure clothes were absurd - jokes, really - as though leisure itself had to be ridiculed.
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He had the sudden urge to put his arms around her, but the look on her face said that if he made a move toward her, she would move away, and maybe she would keep moving away from him until the distance between them was too great to cross again in one lifetime.
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A strategic use of black culture could help generate a more efficient use of American democracy,and democracy more effectively practiced could then produce a genuinely spiritual nation of people.
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The key to making money in angel investing is saying no. You meet with 100 companies and say no to 99 of them.
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New York City is one of the best cities in the world for walking: it's virtually impossible to get lost.
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I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the interior monologues in their letters, and when I have to bridge the chasms between the factual evidence, I try to make an intuitive leap through the eyes and motivation of the person I'm writing about.
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Children don't just play any more - they're far too busy learning to fence and taking extra French classes. In the end, you're actually doing more damage to your children by trying to hot-house them. It's far better to remain a calm parent.
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When I want to understand a problem, I want to understand it from the ground level.
