Matthew Desmond Quotes

We can start with housing, the sturdiest of footholds for economic mobility. A national affordable housing program would be an anti-poverty effort, human capital investment, community improvement plan, and public health initiative all rolled into one.

Matthew Desmond

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August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!

John Burroughs

BeautifulBirdCalmWarmLongMonth

I've always been a pretty candid person. I'm not a very secretive person; I'm not a very discreet person. One of my best friends once described me as pathologically indiscreet.

Andrew Sullivan

BestMeCandidFriendsPersonBeen

Everyone is coming after me now. Fine, let them keep on coming. I'm the fastest man in the world, no doubt.

Maurice Greene

ManMeWorldDoubtNowEveryone

I get my voice from my mother's side of the family. My mother and my grandmother both had strong voices.

Mavis Staples

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Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life.

Michael Behe

LifeLivingOutNecessaryChemical

Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for theoretical chemistry was clearly better in the U.S.

John Pople

TimeDecisionResearchBetter

I am proud that we worked so hard to improve seniors' lives.

Mike Rogers

I AmProudHardImproveSeniorsAm

I view myself as being the average woman. While I am first lady, I wasn't first lady my whole life. I'm a product of pop culture. I'm a consumer of pop culture, and I know what resonates with people.

Michelle Obama

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I can sketch up a storm, and I'm very involved in how clothes are constructed, but I have a short attention span.

Michael Kors

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I'm not selfish at all.

Judy Gold

Selfish

We sit down with the kids every single night, not that I want to every night - sometimes I'd rather be out with my husband having a martini at a swanky restaurant - but we sit down with our kids every night at dinner.

Debi Mazar

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Oftentimes, especially in the context of an acoustic song, I'm motivated to write by some amount of melancholy.

Chris Cornell

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