Matthew Desmond Quotes
If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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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.
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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.
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People used to think of me as a comedy actor.
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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.
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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.
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I love working with women.
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Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.
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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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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.
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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.
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In short, the satisfaction of creating, not necessarily the process, always lifts my heart.
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There are two main principles I've picked up over the years as they pertain to cultivating the type of faith that moves mountains. The first is this: Faith comes by looking at God, not at the mountain. The second is this: God gives us faith as we walk by his side.
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When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.
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To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.
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Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.
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Building power plants would do more to lift people out of poverty than the Green Climate Fund ever will.
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If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma.
