Matthew Desmond Quotes
I see myself writing in the tradition of urban ethnography and in the tradition of the sociology of poverty.Matthew Desmond
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
Gary Lineker -
If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
Brown Campbell -
Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
Nancy Pelosi -
One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
D. H. Lawrence -
I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
M. Night Shyamalan -
The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
Barbara Corcoran
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
C. L. R. James -
But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
Bashar al-Assad -
It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
T.I. -
I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
Natalia Kills -
The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
Jack Schwartz -
Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations.
Dambisa Moyo
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
Bat for Lashes -
But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
Jack Kingston -
I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.
Dan Marino -
Using MO to link crimes can be problematic.
Pat Brown -
I'm still blowing alright, and I still enjoy it which is the main thing.
Acker Bilk -
Let me tell you that I love the United States.
Vicente Fox
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Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
Dada Vaswani -
There are many ways you can make money. Certain ways will make you happy, certain other ways will make other people happy. But if you go in because there's money in there, you're bound to fail, bound to fail!
Joan Chen -
I want to bring theatre to a new generation, using the tools available to us, including taking it out to them on film and with new technology, but that is just so they can discover theatre. I want them to come in and sit in a theatre. This is the way to plant seeds.
Kevin Spacey -
There is no such thing as Christian art or secular art - writing, painting, drawing, whatever it is.
Christopher Priest -
I see myself writing in the tradition of urban ethnography and in the tradition of the sociology of poverty.
Matthew Desmond