Matthew Desmond Quotes
When I talk to booksellers, they tell me how hard it is to hand-sell some of my books because I do keep popping around.
Matthew Desmond
Quotes to Explore
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
Taylor Swift
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
Hansika Motwani
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If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
Zubin Mehta
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
Zebulon Pike
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
Zaha Hadid
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Dale Carnegie
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
B. B. King
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As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left Compton, so I don't get too caught up on what the next person thinks.
Venus Williams
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I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.
Daniel Bruhl
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Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.
Orison Swett Marden
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I don't wear plaid shirts.
Larry Gagosian
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
Gavin Newsom
