Matthew Desmond Quotes

If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma.

Matthew Desmond

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• 'SVU' is one of my favorite shows. When I got the call to appear and play myself, I jumped at the chance. Obviously, I went over my lines, but playing yourself is a really great way to get your feet wet in the acting field. I enjoyed being on set and learning as much as I could about the scripted world.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • World
  • Great
  • Learning

• I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Love
  • Know
  • Kind

• Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.

  

  Ed Greenwood
  • Great
  • Business
  • Together

• I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Time
  • Morning
  • Yoga

• When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Purpose
  • Mad
  • Partner

• This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • Time
  • Fantasy
  • Watching

• Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • End
  • Consciousness
  • Torture

• What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Work
  • Party
  • Eye

• People used to think of me as a comedy actor.

  

  Rami Malek
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• I'm not saying 'I have cerebral palsy, pay attention to me.' We all have problems, and we have to figure out how to live our best life.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Life
  • Live
  • Attention

• I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's lives - it's avoided, because I think people are just afraid of it. There's a standard that women are set to, to try to keep everybody comfortable.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Women
  • Reality

• I love working with women.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Women
  • Love
  • Working

• Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Community
  • Place
  • Library

• I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.

  

  Adam Driver
  • More
  • I Can
  • Strengths

• People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.

  

  Adam Pally
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • War
  • Society
  • Terrorism

• In short, the satisfaction of creating, not necessarily the process, always lifts my heart.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Heart
  • Process
  • Short

• Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Way
  • Say
  • Only

• I'm less concerned about whether being a good corporate citizen burnishes a company's reputation. That's just an added benefit. I believe it's a responsibility, and there is no negotiating on responsibilities.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Responsibility

• I'm not the businessman. I don't deal with the business at all. Not anymore. Occasionally, every four years or five years, they tell me I've run out of money, I have to go and make some more.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Money
  • Business
  • Deal

• I wanted to be a serious actress, but of course that didn't really happen.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Serious
  • Happen
  • Course

• If I take a tumble, I'll mae quite a splash, but at least I won't smash against the deck and make a mess. Still be dead, though.

  

  L.A. Meyer
  • Stills
  • Mess
  • Deck

• Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Vain
  • Makes

• If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Nature
  • Pretty
  • Poverty