Matthew Desmond Quotes
Differences in homeownership rates remain the prime driver of the nation's racial wealth gap.
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In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.
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I think I'm a very intuitive actress.
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I moved to Dallas in 1975 and stayed there until 1980. That's when I decided it was time to move to L.A.
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Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have independent, varying interests, sometimes opposed to each other.
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Both European and American historians have done away with any conceptual limits on what in the past needs and deserves investigating. The result, among other things, has been a flood of works on gender history, black history, and ethnic history of all kinds.
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I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.
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There's a lot of people desperately seeking to find 'the one,' and I think we should learn to be more at peace with ourselves.
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We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.
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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
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Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and enslaved in the Sudan.
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I am very confident about my work because I have worked very hard.
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It's not that I don't feel bad about it. It's just that I don't feel worse today than what I felt yesterday.
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The only antidote to the magic of images is the magic of words.
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Let us redeem our great words from base uses. Let that no longer call itself Love, which knows that it is not free!
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Oh! why should woman ever love,Trusting to one false star above;And fling her little chance awayOf sunshine for its treacherous ray.
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And send him many years of sunshine days!
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If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is people's fears about money
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God forgives man the time spent looking at airplane photos.
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Sometimes life hits you full speed
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Since scarcity is the basic economic problem, if it does not exist then there is no reason for my economics course. Devoting time to the study of how people use limited resources to fulfill unlimited wants and needs should help us to discover how to best utilize the resources we have at our disposal.
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Differences in homeownership rates remain the prime driver of the nation's racial wealth gap.
