Matthew Desmond Quotes

African American women, and moms in particular, are evicted at disproportionately high rates.

Matthew Desmond

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I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure.

Jim Doyle

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I know who Dick Gregory is; I knew what his accomplishments are. I certainly knew him as a comedian and an activist.

Joe Morton

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There's not a system better than another. There are some people better than others. I'm not anti-democracy, but there's no real system yet that has proven itself to be the right one.

Robert Lepage

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There is a quiet place in Hawaii where, for over thirty years, I've gone to draw inspiration and write many of my books.

Robert H. Schuller

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There's so much power in allegory, to form ideas and learn lessons that you can actually take and apply to real life. I think that's why I originally really loved fantasy and reading.

Amandla Stenberg

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It's a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel prize.

Stephen Hawking

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Money is something that keeps you alive and healthy and just keeps you focused. It's the drive. It's the passion.

Travis Scott

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Loki in 'Thor' is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling, coming back knowing that I'd built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters.

Tom Hiddleston

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Think of The Rontourage as the Ron White Channel, where you can see us getting into trouble in all kinds of different places.

Ron White

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When people ask me really stupid questions or get it really wrong, I feel embarrassed for them. I don't really feel angry at them.

Chris Isaak

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I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting field is certainly not the path many Indian parents encourage their children to take, but mine were very supportive. They wanted me to have an education, but understood that this is what I wanted to do.

Archie Panjabi

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The music industry is dominated by guys. I work with men 98 percent of the time - producers, arrangers, musicians, engineers.

Shakira

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