Matthew Desmond Quotes
Just as incarceration has come to define the lives of low-income black men, eviction is defining the lives of low-income black women.Matthew Desmond
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I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.
Katarina Witt -
The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
M. J. Rose -
We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.
T. J. Miller -
People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
Yelawolf -
But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
Laura Innes -
The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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The Federal Reserve is incapable of accomplishing its stated objectives.
G. Edward Griffin -
I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
J. Michael Straczynski -
I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
Iman -
I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
Wanda Sykes -
I was born in Nashville, Tenn., but I have lived in a number of places. In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, Md., where I attended junior high and high school. I lived there for five years before leaving for college.
Nancy Roman -
I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia.
Vagit Alekperov
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I think that life in Israel is sometimes bigger than the movies.
Yitzhak Rabin -
I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
Gale Gordon -
I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi -
I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.
Ice T -
It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.
J. D. Vance -
I love action movies.
Adam McKay
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I loved teaching, but every day that I went to work, I carried the worry that I was hurting my kids because I wasn't at home with them.
Elizabeth Warren -
I think Kellie Martin, Reese Witherspoon and Claire Danes represent the future for women in film, and I would be honored to share the stage with any one of them.
Fred Savage -
The only way I survived at school was by doing impersonations of teachers and pupils. That led to me winning a talent competition when I was 16; the prize was three or four gigs in working men's clubs. I was just showing off: at the time, I thought that's what acting was.
Douglas Hodge -
The DMZ does not divide the last bastion of communism from a liberal democracy; it divides a radical nationalist state from a moderate nationalist one.
Brian Reynolds Myers -
Sometimes if you start a relationship when you're young, you're not as fully developed as a person. You need a relationship that lets you develop in different ways. You need to bounce off different people.
Joel Kinnaman -
Just as incarceration has come to define the lives of low-income black men, eviction is defining the lives of low-income black women.
Matthew Desmond