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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I've watched directors since my very first day of acting because I knew I wanted to direct.
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America is not doctrinaire. It's hard for an American politician to come up with an ideological position that is permanently unforgivable.
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If the men were without passions, it would be forgivable to see Machiavel try to give some to them; he would be the new Prometheus bringing celestial fire to breathe life into robots. But no man is without passions. When they are moderated, they are the heart of the enterprise; but when the brake is stripped of them, they are its destruction.
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Differences in homeownership rates remain the prime driver of the nation's racial wealth gap.
