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.Matthew Desmond
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Broadway is really my life.
Vanessa Williams -
If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
Hanna Rosin -
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.
Ed Westwick -
It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa -
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.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
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.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
Carlos Santana Santana -
No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
H. R. Giger -
We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
Saint Augustine -
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.
Landon Donovan -
Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
Sallust -
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?
Karen Fairchild Little Big Town
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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.
Navi Rawat -
I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
Irvine Welsh -
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.
Barry Humphries -
It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
Gary Sinise -
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.
H. P. Lovecraft -
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
Ogden Nash
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If you want to change the world, start with yourself.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion.
Peter Coyote -
I can't believe people got so upset at the sight of a single breast! America is so parochial, I may just have to move to Europe where people are more mature about things like that!
Janet Jackson -
Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.
Jeff Tweedy -
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