Matthew Desmond Quotes
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
Jack White The White Stripes -
Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
Sam Shepard -
Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
Maisie Williams -
I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand.
Tamara Mellon -
Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.
Abu Bakar Bashir
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
Ione Skye -
Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
Viggo Mortensen -
Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
Walter O'Brien -
My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
Washed Out -
My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.
Orhan Pamuk
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If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
P. J. O'Rourke -
'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
Rachel Kushner -
I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
S. Robson Walton -
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
Harold MacMillan -
I don't subscribe to the idea that if you don't have the body you want, you can't be proud of the body you have. I think you can do both.
Zach Anner -
I've had this theory for a while, but I think there needs to be a message with the end of 'Game of Thrones.' You know? I think what needs to happen is ice and fire are going to go to war, a huge war between those two factions, and I think, in that war, they will destroy themselves. There will be complete chaos, complete destruction.
Finn Jones
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First and foremost, the duty of a representative is to represent the interests of his constituents.
Chuck Fleischmann -
The silent majority is back, and we're going to take the country back.
Donald Trump -
Even though work stops, expenses run on.
Cato the Elder -
Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence: East and West, yesterday and tomorrow exist as a confused jumble in each one of us. Different times and different spaces are combined in a here and now that is everywhere at once.
Octavio Paz -
An eviction is an incredibly time consuming and stressful event.
Matthew Desmond