Matthew Desmond Quotes
Just strictly from a business standpoint, kids are a liability to landlords, and they actually provoke evictions.
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Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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What I like to call 'journalism of depth' is the media that regards the collective conscience of the masses to be its point of departure. It is the media that believes, as a matter of principle, in the potential capabilities of the people and respects their choices.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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I used to be so self-conscious about my braces that people thought I was shy - I just never talked. It took me a long time to realize, whatever, it's not like I'll have them forever, so I might as well enjoy it while I do!
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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To me, in life, if there's, like, a rule, and I think it's ridiculous, then of course I'll circumvent that but also point out how ridiculous the rule is. Other than that, if I go to a concert, and my seat is Row G, Seat 12, I'm sitting in Row G, Seat 12. I don't care if I'm with five other friends, I'm supposed to be in Seat 12, that's my seat.
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By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.
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As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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The ability to cultivate friends is a powerful aid to success. It is capital which will stand by one when panics come, when banks fail, when business concerns go to the wall.
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Actually, I wanted to become a journalist, but no matter who I imagined myself to be in the future, somehow I was sure: I would leave my hometown. I felt it was my destiny.
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I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.
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Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.
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How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
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I don't think anyone's particularly conscious of thinking suits are the thing, but when you see a comedian on stage in jeans and a t-shirt it doesn't matter how good they are - it always looks like amateur hour when they walk onto the stage.
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X-rays revealed that some people were born without a corpus callosum, and they seemed just fine.
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'The Lego Movie?' I've never heard of it.
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The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.
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We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.
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I wear sweat pants; I look terrible all the time. I'm so vulnerable.
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I earned the name from the Greek god Zelos who is the god of rivalry.
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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
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Just strictly from a business standpoint, kids are a liability to landlords, and they actually provoke evictions.
