Matthew Desmond Quotes

Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.

Matthew Desmond

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PovertyDebateNowOutBeenWord

I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things.

Jim Hodges

EvidenceThingsInterestedHolding

I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.

Jerzy Kosinski

ArtRelationshipsWayOthersHuman

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

Maya Angelou

HomeTimeMyselfMomentNew YorkMe

If there is one great power, and the great power has taken upon itself the right to preempt and is choosing for itself when and in what circumstances it's going to do that, obviously it leads people in the rest of the world to wonder how far this doctrine extends.

John Lewis Gaddis

PowerGreatPeopleWorldRestRight

If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a piano player, as some composers are, the music may become flavorless and glib. And if you're not a very good pianist, you're limited to the same patterns.

Stephen Sondheim

GoodMusicYourselfYouBecomeMore

When wearing a trench coat, you're allowed to act like Humphrey Bogart when he was detective Sam Spade.

Roger Stone

YouCoatActDetectiveLikeTrench

A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

Rupert Brooke

GoodBookLongYouBadEarly

The story of mountaintop mining - why it happens, and what its consequences are - is still new to most Americans. They have no idea that their country's physical legacy - the purple mountain majesties that are America - is being destroyed at the rate of several ridgetops a week, by three million pounds of explosives every day.

Michael Shnayerson

DayMountainLegacyStoryAmerica

I think more and more, in places like Benghazi, in places like Iran, we have to be asking the question, can we trust the local government to protect our people?

Mitchell Zuckoff

TrustGovernmentPeopleThinkPlaces

No, I was going to college and got discovered.

Jay Hernandez

CollegeGotGoingDiscovered

There are a ton of A-list stars I'd love to dress - fashionistas like Keira Knightley and Scarlett Johansson. Also, Cate Blanchett would be fun and fabulous. My picks vary by the day and how I'm feeling. But, as a new, young designer, I'm open to working with everyone!

Christian Siriano

LoveStarsDayFunDressYoung

Communication is so key.

Ashley Tisdale

CommunicationKey

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