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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Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.
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It is safer to try to understand the low in the light of the high than the high in the light of the low. In doing the latter one necessarily distorts the high, whereas in doing the former one does not deprive the low of the freedom to reveal itself as fully as what it is.
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So, on beyond Z! It's high time you were shown That you really don't know All there is to be known.
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It was offered to me. When Spielberg says jump, bitches say how high?
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I was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it.
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The biggest thing that I hope people take away when they listen to my music is that they feel that there is an outlet being presented that allows them to be more authentic and for them to be more honest in their own lives.
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The high cost of housing is crushing poor families and sending them to a state of desperation.
