Matthew Desmond Quotes

There is a reason so many Americans choose to develop their net worth through homeownership: It is a proven wealth builder and savings compeller.

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• I felt pressure to follow in Madonna's footsteps, and I didn't want to base my career on sex. So I began to change how I saw myself.

  

  La India
  • Career
  • Change
  • Myself

• Yes, we've still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• When I played sports, if you lose the game, and then you complain, that makes you a sore loser. That doesn't make you protester - that just makes you a whiner.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Game
  • Sports
  • Loser

• Some have suffered death to make it possible for us to have the scriptures today. Historically, the scriptures in the Bible were reserved for the clergy, with the reading of them by others being denounced. At times, laws even prohibited the public or private reading of them.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Today
  • Death
  • Reading

• A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.

  

  Harold E. Hughes
  • Great
  • Peace
  • Body

• You can always turn a bad kisser into a good one.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Always

• I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Trying
  • Words
  • Mom

• I am disappointed and disturbed by both the NFL and the Dodgers - but much more by the Dodgers.

  

  Zev Yaroslavsky
  • Disappointed
  • NFL
  • Disturbed

• Many use Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes for daily transactions like going to theatres, malls, and trading purpose. People like these are unnecessarily put to inconvenience.

  

  Vijay
  • People
  • Purpose
  • Daily

• I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Like
  • Strange
  • Botox

• The reason why Broken Men only became Untouchables was because in addition to being Buddhists, they retained their habit of beef-eating, which gave additional ground for offence to the Brahmins to carry their new-found love and reverence to the cow to its logical conclusion.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Men
  • Love
  • Why

• I think the best thing I can say about it - and I think the best thing you can say about anything, really - is that 'The Motorcycle Diaries' made me feel like my home was bigger; it made me feel at home anywhere in Latin America.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Home
  • America
  • Best

• Love is a great emotion, but I believe it's not just about romance; it could be love for nature, people, for relationships.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • People
  • Love
  • Nature

• It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • Important
  • You
  • Group

• It's nice to be needed.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Nice
  • Needed

• All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Work
  • Effort
  • Growth

• Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It's not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Up
  • Power
  • Nature

• It's a great moment for Argentinean tennis, more on the men's side. I would like to see more on the women's side. I think we have to work a little bit more on that.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Work
  • Great
  • Men

• As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Mother
  • Lost

• Sadly, many individuals don't know where to find God, and exclude him from their lives. When spiritual needs arise, they may look to the left, the right, or round about. But looking to other people on the same level cannot satisfy spiritual shortages. When the immortal spirit is starved, hunger persists for something more filling. Even when material success comes, there is a hollow ache - if living well falls short of living worthily. Inner peace cannot be found in affluence accompanied by spiritual privation.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • People
  • Fall
  • Spiritual

• Two million felons have tried to buy a gun and, because of the background check, have been denied.

  

  Joe Biden
  • Gun

• I think looking at the front row of a Chvrches show is really diverse. It could be 50-year-old dudes who love Depeche Mode or teenagers or teenage girls and their dad.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Dad

• If your religion has not changed your life, youd better change your religion.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Life
  • Religion
  • Changed

• There is a reason so many Americans choose to develop their net worth through homeownership: It is a proven wealth builder and savings compeller.

  

  Matthew Desmond