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.
Quotes to Explore
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Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.
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I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.
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People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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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.
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The Federal Reserve is incapable of accomplishing its stated objectives.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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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.
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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.
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I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia.
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I think that life in Israel is sometimes bigger than the movies.
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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.
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.
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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.
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Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.
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Dead souls dream only of death. Small dreams for small men. It is life that expands to fill worlds. Life is your master, or death is
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What happens when you take a lion out of the safari and try to take him to your place of residence and make him a house pet? It ain't going to happen. That's the type of person that I am. I'm that lion.
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In my 20s, I became obsessed with the role-playing game 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms,' named after a classical Chinese novel, and later 'The Sims,' a life-simulation game, and 'StarCraft,' a science-fiction game.
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Just as incarceration has come to define the lives of low-income black men, eviction is defining the lives of low-income black women.
