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.Matthew Desmond
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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.
Taya Kyle -
A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.
Gale Anne Hurd -
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.
Dana Perino -
Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
J. Paul Getty -
I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.
Larry David -
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.
Sam Smith
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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.
Edmund White -
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
Wendell Phillips -
I would love to do something like 'Fishing With John.'
Parker Posey -
To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
Rafael Correa -
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.
Natasha Henstridge -
But when I hear a great song, I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.
Taylor Swift -
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.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand -
I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
Wally Lamb -
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
Larry David -
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.
Ben Jonson
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There is a phrase in French, which means 'to miss.' To pass by. To not be able to stop. You love someone and someone loves you, but it just can't work for different reasons.
Emmanuelle Beart -
I like to stand in my kitchen with the script on a counter that's about chest high. Usually I do something else at the same time - make a chicken or slice vegetables - and all day long I just read it over and over and over.
Christopher Walken -
I do really modern with materials that are so luxurious that they're, like, baroque.
Peter Marino -
Missionary activity is not so much the work of the church as simply the Church at work.
David Bosch -
A lot of directors are great and they are fine but you know I think that Harry really takes a special point to really engage the actors and really make it feel like a safe place for them to explore whatever it is they want to explore in whatever scene with their character.
Will Estes -
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.
Matthew Desmond