Matthew Desmond Quotes

I think I've read all of W.E.B. Du Bois, which is a lot. He started off with comprehensive field work in Philadelphia, publishing a book in 1899 called 'The Philadelphia Negro'. It was this wonderful combination of clear statistical data and ethnographic data.

Matthew Desmond

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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.

John Dalberg-Acton

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I had a theater that was right across the street from me, and I would just go there after school and just hang out and watch... and everything seemed calmer there and nicer there and warmer there.

Jeffrey Tambor

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Politically, of course, the U.S., despite the flaws in its systems, is still a democracy - we like to associate with democracies. And strategically, the U.S. is a counter-balance to China, a rising China that is not yet a democracy.

Tsai Ing-wen

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Everybody just has different steps in their life that they take to do what they should.

Travis Scott

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My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.

Tony Curtis

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If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult, at best, and all but unlivable at worst, or possibly even unlivable, do you go on? And the choice to go on is the only thing that I think can be called hope. Because if hope isn't forced to encounter the worst possibility, then it's a lie.

Tony Kushner

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I've always considered myself a folk singer, even though we strapped on Rickenbacker guitars and played pretty loud.

Roger McGuinn

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I don't have any children, so I've decided to claim all the future freedom-fighters and hell-raisers as my kin.

Molly Ivins

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Hello, my name is Lisa Jakub. But most people in a restaurant/dentist's office/yoga studio dressing room, call me 'Hey, you look like that girl from 'Mrs. Doubtfire'/'Independence Day'/'Rambling Rose.' There is a good reason for that. I am that girl. More accurately, I was that girl.

Lisa Jakub

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During the writing of all of my books, I've learned that, most of all, people want to know that someone is listening and - this is the tricky part - remembering.

Doug Stanton

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'Psycho' is probably the best known example of a horror film whose exclusive sound was strings, and since then, it's been hard to avoid that. The minute you have strings as your primary voice, the comparisons are always made.

Christopher Young

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I go to frozen pizza or soy chicken nuggets when I need a five-minute meal.

Christina Applegate

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