Matthew Desmond Quotes

When you meet people who are spending 70, 80 percent of their income on rent, eviction becomes much more of an inevitability than the result of personal irresponsibility.

Matthew Desmond

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Mergers and acquisitions, we are always looking for that.

John L. Flannery

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As incredible as television has become, it often feels like a sideshow in what has become a daily three-ring media circus.

John Landgraf

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I've done, like, 45 movies, played 40 gangsters and five crooked cops.

Tony Sirico

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It's a disappointment to lose key players. On the other hand it creates an opportunity to play other players.

Tom Moody

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A smile is a facelift that's in everyone's price range!

Tom Wilson

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'Buena Vista Social Club' is a great song and a difficult tune to play.

Ry Cooder

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Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance.

Michelangelo Antonioni

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What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.

Lucretius

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I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?

Liz Phair

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Your head is a stereo input. The density and cartilage of your ears embed certain extra characteristics into stereo sound sources. Your brain decodes that and gives you sound plus conscious directions.

Chris Milk

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I was looking to show people I could act. I was looking for something that would take me away from the whole hunk riding off into the sunset thing that people wanted me to play after Brown Sugar.

Boris Kodjoe

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Health, money. That's what people worried about in the 14th century as much as today. I find it so much more interesting than the supposed activities of kings, queens, generals.

Peter Ackroyd

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