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 -
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 -
I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
Lady Gaga -
Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
P. J. O'Rourke -
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 -
In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
H. G. Wells
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
J. D. Salinger -
The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
Quentin Crisp -
Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
Kate Bernheimer -
If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
R. Kelly -
I was born free.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
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 -
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 -
There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
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 -
Bro, how are you going to tap on the neck, on the choke? Go to sleep, man. Be a man.
Rafael dos Anjos -
It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.
Walter Becker China Crisis
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I'm helping people think the clarinet is cool.
Anat Cohen -
One of my strengths over the years is to be open-minded.
Kevin Harvick -
People need to have compassion for others.
Frank Bruno -
I was looking for excellence in any color or gender it comes in. Some of my top people are African American but not all of them.
T. D. Jakes -
I keep all my clothes on in House on Haunted Hill, Mary Jane's Last Dance, and The Way of the Gun.
Taye Diggs -
Eviction reveals people's vulnerability and desperation as well as their ingenuity and guts.
Matthew Desmond