Matthew Desmond Quotes
Without the ability to plant roots and invest in your community or your school - because you're paying 60, 70, 80 percent of your income to rent - and eviction becomes something of an inevitability to you, it denies you certain freedoms.
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People hear the examples of kids who work when they're young, have bad experiences, and then have a rough life after that, but a lot of it is just about the people around you.
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There's nothing simple when you're in this 'Good Place.'
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You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I'm just a Connecticut country boy. The people I've known, the changes of season, the call of the blue jay - when I'm away, all of them haunt me.
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The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
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I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.
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If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
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I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.
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I moved out when I was 17 to get away from a pretty tough and difficult family environment.
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Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
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You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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You always need younger guys if you're going to be successful in the long term.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.
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Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself.
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When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.
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In a phrase: I always hope it keeps getting better.
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In Brentwood we had a big safe-deposit box to put manuscripts in if we left town during fire season. It was such a big box that we never bothered to clean it out.
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Without the ability to plant roots and invest in your community or your school - because you're paying 60, 70, 80 percent of your income to rent - and eviction becomes something of an inevitability to you, it denies you certain freedoms.
