Matthew Desmond Quotes
Eviction reveals people's vulnerability and desperation as well as their ingenuity and guts.
Matthew Desmond
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
Yogi Berra
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Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
F. Murray Abraham
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
Lady Gaga
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When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
Samantha Power
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Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
P. J. O'Rourke
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If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.
Garth Brooks
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I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once.
Kate Grenville
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I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
Paloma Elsesser
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I still sing on bits and pieces. Singing's something that I love to do, but it's not something that I pursue as a career.
Idris Elba
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.
Oliver Stone
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Bro, how are you going to tap on the neck, on the choke? Go to sleep, man. Be a man.
Rafael dos Anjos