Matthew Desmond Quotes
Eviction reveals people's vulnerability and desperation as well as their ingenuity and guts.
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.
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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.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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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.
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Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
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Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.
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If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
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I was born free.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A lot of people don't even listen to albums start to finish, but I do - for sure.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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.
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For my part, I had rather be the first man among these fellows than the second man in Rome.
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The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
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People are looking for software development that actually does something useful... People are looking for partners who deliver when promised, and at a reasonable and transparent price. I believe that the days of being able to value price software are numbered.
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So I think it's important to communicate with the people in terms of what the real facts are on these proposals and try to have a discussion and a dialogue that gives people information. I think they're hungry for that rather than just political rhetoric.
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Eviction reveals people's vulnerability and desperation as well as their ingenuity and guts.
