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Our guys coming back from last year, they understand what the situation was like. They're ready to move on. This is the opportunity for us to do that, and I think we're going to take advantage of it.


Desmond Mason

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MATTHEW DESMOND What we're seeing is that even in high poverty neighborhoods, the average cost of renting is qui...
MATTHEW DESMOND Young mothers who apply for housing assistance in our nation's capital literally could be grandm...
MATTHEW DESMOND Substandard housing was a blow to your psychological health, not only because things like dampness, ...
MATTHEW DESMOND We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and ...
PAUL DESMOND Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.
PAUL DESMOND I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.
PAUL DESMOND I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted it to sound like a dry martini.
PAUL DESMOND I felt a responsibility to all other newsletter publishers.
PAUL DESMOND Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
DESMOND TUTU Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
DESMOND TUTU In February 1932, the 'Times' published an account of community resistance to the eviction o...
MATTHEW DESMOND Home is the center of life. It's the wellspring of personhood. It's where we say we're o...
MATTHEW DESMOND Home is the wellspring of personhood, where our identity takes root; where civic life begins. Americ...
MATTHEW DESMOND I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated road...
DESMOND TUTU God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him...
DESMOND TUTU Rural experiences are a key part of the therapy people need as an urban escape. They want to take th...
DESMOND JOLLY Every year we have new ones. Agricultural tourism is growing. The object is to maximize direct sales...
DESMOND JOLLY We do know that with good management, good advertising and outreach -- and of course you have to hav...
DESMOND JOLLY Some people looked really messed up. There were rivers of blood.
DESMOND EDWARDS The first tramcars rattled noisily through the empty streets, dilapidated monsters that just hours l...
DESMOND DOIG I don't think I've ever forced a fumble before. I always played offense my whole life -- a little de...
DESMOND CLARK Going into Thursday's practice I hit a brick wall and felt real bad. I felt like I had to throw up a...
DESMOND CLARK Kyle played good. He played good for his first game.
DESMOND CLARK Rex is more instinctive in terms of being able to make plays on the run. Besides that, I don't think...
DESMOND CLARK When he threw it, I was on the goal line and had to kind of stretch out for the ball, ... I knew I w...
DESMOND CLARK I wasn't able to keep my balance very well,
DESMOND CLARK [Of course, the previous staff claimed the tight end would play a more prominent role in the offense...
DESMOND CLARK