Matthew Desmond Quotes

When I want to understand a problem, I want to understand it from the ground level.

Matthew Desmond

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• Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Home
  • Win
  • Changes

• It's absolutely critical that we not only provide support from cradle to career in the education system but also the wraparound services.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Career
  • Education
  • Support

• The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Important
  • Political

• The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • You
  • More
  • Temptation

• Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Film

• I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Like
  • Find
  • Toughness

• Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Effort
  • Doing

• 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.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Hand

• 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.

  

  Irving R. Kaufman
  • Up
  • Special
  • Authority

• 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.

  

  Wale
  • America
  • Hate
  • Religion

• 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.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Attention
  • Woman
  • Acting

• When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Man
  • Literature
  • Pen

• 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.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Time
  • Family
  • Question

• Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Freedom
  • Creative
  • Huge

• 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?'

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Plato

• All his leisure clothes were absurd - jokes, really - as though leisure itself had to be ridiculed.

  

  Edmund White

• 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.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Great
  • She
  • Moving

• 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.

  

  Aberjhani
  • People
  • American
  • Help

• 'Man,' said Terl, 'is an endangered species.'

  

  L. Ron Hubbard

• Punishment for doing your job well is an unparalleled professional pressure.

  

  Chris Borland
  • Job
  • Professional

• I think there's this pressure to get rid of the fun that makes us human. It hasn't worked on me.

  

  Kyrsten Sinema
  • Fun

• Roberta, meanwhile, had brown eyes, a pointy chin, and absolutely perfect posture when she sat without fidgeting in a grown-up chair and a clean white dress. With both girls, their parents had hoped for a boy and picked out a name in advance.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Parents
  • Boy
  • Name

• The anti-tax-cut, soft-on-defense, big-spending Democrats will take the Democratic Party to the edge and maybe over.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Party
  • Democrats
  • Anti-Tax-Cut

• When I want to understand a problem, I want to understand it from the ground level.

  

  Matthew Desmond