Matthew Desmond Quotes
Eviction riots erupted during the Depression, though the number of poor families who faced eviction each year was a fraction of what it is today.
Matthew Desmond
Quotes to Explore
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Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.
Jack Welch
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Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.
B. Carroll Reece
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T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision.
Eduard Shevardnadze
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Akshay Kumar is a senior in the industry, and I consider myself lucky to be working with him. Each film of his opens to a packed house. Today, a film will sell only if you have a story. The audience is smart and won't be taken for a ride. And I'm confident about my movies.
Kajal Aggarwal
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We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too.
Quincy Jones
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Most of my job life has had to do with welfare, first helping people find work and then as an administrator. The earlier experience was more direct and satisfying, and I enjoy thinking that a bunch of people somewhere are doing better today than they might have done if not for me.
Gail Carson Levine
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To this day, I'm against the draft. I believe the military is much stronger if it's an all-volunteer organization.
Jesse Ventura
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Artists everywhere steal mercilessly all the time and I think this is healthy.
Peter Gabriel
Genesis
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Guard, O my soul, against pomp and glory. And if you cannot curb your ambitions, at least pursue them hesitantly, cautiously. And the higher you go, the more searching and careful you need to be.
C.P. Cavafy
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I grew up in Nacogdoches, Texas... raised by my grandmother. We were very poor and had no indoor plumbing. My grandmother was a very religious woman, though, and she gave me a lot of faith and inner strength.
Alana Stewart
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Eviction riots erupted during the Depression, though the number of poor families who faced eviction each year was a fraction of what it is today.
Matthew Desmond