Matthew Desmond Quotes
Between 2009 and 2011, more than one in eight Milwaukee renters were displaced involuntarily, whether by formal or informal eviction, landlord foreclosure, or building condemnation.
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You win some, lose some, and wreck some.
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Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.
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I was raised by very traditional Southern parents with Southern manners. You don't air your dirty laundry to people that aren't your family or your friends. Why would I ever want to portray myself as anything other than together?
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.
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Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.
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'Single' is usually applied to women as though they are a problem to be fixed.
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Each additional idea is a gift to the future. Each additional idea producer is a source of wealth for future generations.
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I baked bread, hand-ground peanuts into butter, grew and froze vegetables, and, every morning, packed lunches so healthful that they had no takers in the grand swap-fest of the lunchroom.
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Souffles don't deserve their reputation as potential disasters.
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I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.
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I've always had really messy hair.
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I'm happy people look at me as a role model.
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Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
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Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make of it.
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Economics is not a discipline that comes to correct answers - economies are too complex.
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Back when I was jamming with Axl and the guys they had boxes of cassettes with song ideas. How do you know which ones you like now when you have that many ideas.
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I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees.
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I'm not against wealth; I just think everybody should have it, same as health.
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I wanted to move away from Holland for my work because I felt that things would be better for me in England. But when I heard Joy Division's 'Unknown Pleasures', that pushed me towards making the move and making it real. I met them within 12 days of moving to England.
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I fought in Korea, front line. I knew who the enemy were. The enemy were the people who were firing at me. And shooting at me.
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Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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Between 2009 and 2011, more than one in eight Milwaukee renters were displaced involuntarily, whether by formal or informal eviction, landlord foreclosure, or building condemnation.
