Matthew Desmond Quotes
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.
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Broadway is really my life.
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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I'm a complete romantic - it's why I always get married. Someone should really stop me.
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I often say to prospective clients, 'Nothing will age faster than your hardware.' Even the thinnest touch screen will look like a toaster oven in a number of years.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.
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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.
