Matthew Desmond Quotes
Most poor families are living completely unassisted in a private rental market, devoting most of their income to housing. When you meet people who are spending 70, 80 percent of their income on rent, eviction becomes much more of an inevitability than the result of personal irresponsibility.
Matthew Desmond
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
Jack Gilbert
I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.
Nate Berkus
You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C. S. Lewis
When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.
Aaron Paul
I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
B. B. King
When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
Becky G
The first thing I do each morning is get out of bed and give my dog, Audrey, a hug. She's a Jack Russell. I think having an animal is a wonderful thing, particularly dogs. They are great levelers, there's no nonsense with them, and they just want simple affection.
Donatella Versace
Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.
H. P. Lovecraft
The story of the Western world since 1945 is that, invited to choose between freedom and government 'security,' large numbers of people vote to dump freedom every time - the freedom to make your own decisions about health care, education, property rights, and a ton of other stuff.
Mark Steyn
The people in Dominica and the small communities where I were had no idea who I was, and there's no better security than that.
James Douglas
There is something strange about me. I don't ever feel at ease in a group of people. I have to fight hard to overcome my fears.
Marion Cotillard
Most poor families are living completely unassisted in a private rental market, devoting most of their income to housing. When you meet people who are spending 70, 80 percent of their income on rent, eviction becomes much more of an inevitability than the result of personal irresponsibility.
Matthew Desmond
