Matthew Desmond Quotes
Poor families are living above their means, in apartments they cannot afford. The thing is, those apartments are already at the bottom of the market.
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Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.
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As an entrepreneur, you tend to see the opportunities where others see none.
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Rick Santorum has so much potential and so much eagerness to serve our country.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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I think any time you bring those guys in, one with a lot of playoff experience, with rings - those guys won - guys in the locker room gravitate towards those guys. Those guys have been there, so there's a lot that they can teach the guys.
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I always tell my partners that our job is to fund all the companies we can that can be worth $10 billion or more. That's such a difficult constraint, we can't have any other constraints.
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I'm an enormous Tim Burton fan.
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Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.
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Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
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Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I think part of it was he didn't want to be viewed suspiciously by the other people in the White House who rarely go anywhere.
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There are no rules when it comes to songwriting, so I'd turn Carter family songs from the 1930s into pop songs.
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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.
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I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it.
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If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.
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I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.
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To be political means to speak out, to risk being called 'catty', or worse. I don't hear men worrying about whether they may be right or not. They enjoy the fight, whether it is with words or fists. Women still tend to shy away from controversy, to be uncomfortable with competition.
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Big ideas developed in a vacuum are doomed from the start. Feedback is the essential tool for building and growing a successful company.
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I got the wild style, always been a foul child, My guns go boom-boom, and your guns go pow-pow.
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I'd love to do something on 'Mad Men' and 'Boardwalk Empire.' I really like period stuff.
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History, sir, will tell lies as usual.
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Poor families are living above their means, in apartments they cannot afford. The thing is, those apartments are already at the bottom of the market.
