Matthew Desmond Quotes

Poor families are living above their means, in apartments they cannot afford. The thing is, those apartments are already at the bottom of the market.

Matthew Desmond

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LivingPoorBottomAboveMarket

I believe it would demean Nobel Prizes if they were awarded to research students, except in very exceptional cases.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

ResearchBelieveI BelieveStudents

Genius is sorrow's child.

John Adams

ChildGeniusSorrow

You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

FeelYouNumbersMathematician

The little black dress expresses a moment of freedom and individuality every time.

Andre Leon Talley

FreedomTimeMomentDressBlack

I think I have the best house in the world. I thank God to have it. I thank God that I finished it. And I hope that I will live enough to take profit of it.

Max Azria

LiveGodHopeBestWorldThank God

'UnREAL' has always been provocative and bitingly honest, which makes the show what it is.

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

AlwaysHonestShowBeenProvocative

My CIA godfather told me he'd never heard any American speak Japanese so well.

Steven Seagal

MeSpeakAmericanNeverWellHe

I never really had any close friends in India, and I felt a terrible loneliness and isolation for many years. Westernized Indians don't like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

LonelinessIsolationFriendsIndia

Hopefully my books are improving. One of the ways I find motivation to improve is looking at someone who is already at a high level and continues to get better with each book. That's really what you want to emulate.

Michael Koryta

LookingBookBetterMotivationYou

We've done amazing things for the state. Some of them have had a national impact, but I'm going to be ready for some new challenges, and so I'm not going to seek a fifth term as attorney general.

Lisa Madigan

AmazingChallengesImpactReadyNew

It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written.

Judy Blume

FireMeWorryNowWillNever

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

Joseph Addison

TruthManStupidVirtueSideOwn

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