Matthew Desmond Quotes

I love Milwaukee, the rust belt. It's a very special part of America that's full of promise but also full of pain, where poverty is acute.

Matthew Desmond

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I would say for every successful black woman in America or in the world, really, it's difficult to be the head of the household, financially. It is for the man in your life. It can be very hard for them. And there's a delicate balance. I'm not quite sure I know what that balance is just yet.

Jill Scott

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It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.

Matthew Henry

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So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.

Andy Grove

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Acting is happy agony.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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It's never a good thing to see a government agency talk in secret about the need to 'control protestors' - especially when that agency is charged with protecting the homeland against terrorists, not nonviolent demonstrators exercising their First Amendment rights to peaceable dissent.

Michael Hastings

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Mass incarceration is a massive system of racial and social control.

Michelle Alexander

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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I have the largest collection of Hulk memorabilia in the world - everything from toilet paper, wallpaper, bicycles - all boxed up at my house in Northern California. I've had it for so long, I think it might be time to sell it.

Lou Ferrigno

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Oddly enough, I never studied writing. I studied almost everything except writing.

Joss Whedon

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What originates everything are the emotions, the feelings, what we call soul. Then the brain commands these feelings to the voice. The voice is just the vehicle; it's the very last step in the chain.

Jose Carreras

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Whatever I've got going on, I play music to accompany me.

Brooke Burke

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Boxing distills and illuminates the essence of an athlete. There's nowhere to hide. Boxers live and perform at the extremes. They provide us with answers about a given contest, but more important, they ask us fundamental questions about human narratives. What does this person really stand for? How far will he go to defend it?

Brin-Jonathan Butler

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