Matthew Desmond Quotes
The high cost of housing is crushing poor families and sending them to a state of desperation.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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I've been in more laps than a napkin.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.
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I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
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More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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I was the hallway clown in high school.
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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
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The devil made me do it.
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I know what a long shot race is like, and I'm willing to put the work in.
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Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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I've done my coaching badges, I've got my Pro Licence, but I enjoy what I'm doing now. I'm also the elite performance director of the Welsh FA. The main thing for me was always Liverpool Football Club and my country, Wales - and I'm lucky enough to still be involved with both of them.
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Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan's bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much.
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I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.
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President Trump, who made his name in the business world and built a brand as a successful CEO via a reality TV show that punished incompetence, was not just elected for a series of tough policy views.
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Peor and BaälimForsake their temples dim.
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We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate ourselves.
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The high cost of housing is crushing poor families and sending them to a state of desperation.
