Matthew Desmond Quotes
Almost a decade removed from the foreclosure crisis that began in 2008, the nation is facing one of the worst affordable-housing shortages in generations.
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A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.
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My dad met my mom at Casper College in the orientation line. He studied business and eventually transferred to the University of Wyoming at Laramie.
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Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
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I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.
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The idea of having a house, a kid, a husband, and a dog... I love that. I also really want to open a coffee and flower shop one day, probably in Italy.
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Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies.
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Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
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I would love to do something like 'Fishing With John.'
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To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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I began as a model, but that did not really hold my interest for too long! I believe I stood out from the parade of models trying to make it in Hollywood, which helped launch my career beyond the one-night-stand horror movie.
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But when I hear a great song, I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.
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I'm not an expert when it comes to technology, but what changed things for me was autofocus. I used to have to throw away half my pictures because it was so difficult to get the focus right.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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A lot of sexual harassment stuff in the news, and I couldn't help but notice a very disturbing pattern emerging, which is that many of the predators, not all, but many of them are Jews
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They say princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.
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Our words must seem to be inevitable.
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The novel, as a genre, was once considered a diversion every bit as frivolous as Facebook, but over the years, we've managed to convince ourselves that reading fiction is as important to our mental digestion as fresh fruits and vegetables are to the processes that take place a little further down.
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Baghdad is determined to force the Mongols of our age to commit suicide at its gates.
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Almost a decade removed from the foreclosure crisis that began in 2008, the nation is facing one of the worst affordable-housing shortages in generations.
