Matthew Desmond Quotes

There are moving companies specializing in evictions, their crews working all day, every weekday.

Matthew Desmond

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DayMovingWorkingEveryAll Day

I used to pride myself on being the first in the office in the morning and one of the last to leave at night. Now, that's so dated: It's not about effort, it's about outcomes.

Maynard Webb

MorningMyselfEffortNightPride

Kids are brought into show business because they are cute and see truth and they're very bright. But there's a sense of doing it because you want the adults to be approving of you. You want to make them happy.

Anna Chlumsky

BusinessTruthCuteHappyDoingYou

Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.

Jeff Bridges

HurtAliveCynicismBeenShellMost

Before I was an actor, I was a fan.

Sterling K. Brown

ActorFanBefore

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

Soren Kierkegaard

TeacherYouProfessorTakeThinker

People think that I'm conceited, and I'm not a nice person.

Slick Rick

PeopleThinkPersonNiceNice Person

It's football season; anything can happen.

Troy Brown

FootballHappenAnythingSeason

I've been pretty clear about saying that I think that the No. 1 threat to our national security is our debt. And we've got to get our arms around that and head it in another - head it in the right direction - that we have to pay our fair share of this.

Michael Mullen

SayingDirectionThinkSecurityDebt

Stories helped me unite parts of my existence that might otherwise have seemed irrevocably split by geography and time. And stories helped me find a future in which I, such a mongrel, could be comfortable.

Mohsin Hamid

FutureTimeMeFindGeographyUnite

Early American music and early folk music, before the record became popular and before there were pop stars and before there were venues made to present music where people bought tickets, people played music in the community, and it was much more part of a fabric of everyday life. I call that music 'root music.'

Jon Batiste

LifeStarsMusicCommunityPeople

I think I'm going to keep my Irish accent forever now in any movie I make, because chicks dig it and that's all I care about now!

Chris O'Dowd

ThinkCareNowIrishForeverGoing

My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer.

Bruno Mars

FatherMotherChildMomBrooklyn

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