Matthew Desmond Quotes

Home is the center of life. It's the wellspring of personhood. It's where we say we're ourselves.

Matthew Desmond

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LifeHomeSayCenterWhere

My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.

Jimmy Wales

GoodCommunityFreedomWalkNight

We didn't have any solution to the world's problems. I mean, we were trying to grow up in a socialist way to some future where the world might be less of a miserable place than it is.

Joe Strummer

FutureWorldProblemsGrowSolution

I can't abide small talk.

Matt Roper

SmallTalkSmall TalkAbide

Busy is good, you know. Busy is better than bored, and there's more recognition. Like, I try to feign the anonymity which I had before 'O.J.'

Sterling K. Brown

GoodBusyBetterRecognitionYou

Infrastructure alone won't end poverty. The World Bank had to learn this lesson, too. While we believed too much in bricks and mortar in our early days, we now understand that bringing together funding, technical expertise, and tested knowledge goes much further.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

KnowledgeAloneTogetherWorldEnd

I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.

Steven Spielberg

WorkTodayArtBookThinkWorth

By validating and aggregating the best material from a wide range of independent and mainstream content owners, Babelgum aims to encourage common interest communities that are not well served by traditional television.

Silvio Scaglia

BestTelevisionIndependentContent

You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it's hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs.

Tom Waits

LoveCarFeelYouKnowSilver

You won't ever hear me talk about whether my wife's prettier than your wife.

Robert Blaha

WifeMeYouTalkYourPrettier

If I'm playing in the morning, I'll get some carbs early: porridge with chopped banana. If I'm playing in the afternoon, I'll start with less carbs and have some eggs and fruit for breakfast, then a light lunch about 90 minutes before I play, so I don't feel sluggish or full.

Rory McIlroy

MorningLightBreakfastLunchStart

We cannot 'fix' the police without a revolution of values and radical change to the basic structure of our society.

Michelle Alexander

ChangePoliceSocietyRevolutionFix

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

PowerGreatWhoHeShouldLightly

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