Matthew Desmond Quotes

Differences in homeownership rates remain the prime driver of the nation's racial wealth gap.

Matthew Desmond

Recitation: by Male by Female

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WealthDifferencesNationRacialGap

The box got bigger, the outside, the buildings. And all that we were doing. I had to raise about $1 million every two days just to stay alive.

Jim Bakker

DoingBuildingsAliveOutsideBox

We're all quite vulnerable human beings really.

Andrea Arnold

HumanHuman BeingsQuiteReally

I think that it's when we step out of the road, step outside the box, become our own person, and we walk fearlessly down paths other people wouldn't look at, that true progress comes. And sometimes true beauty as well.

John McAfee

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The messages that my work might contain, the verbal aspects, the use of words, certainly I never mean for it to be more than - shall we say? - fifty percent of the total, and sometimes my active interest is much less than that. It is the formal aspect of my painting which fascinates me most.

Robert Indiana

WorkWordsMePaintingSometimes

When my record company rejected 'Full Moon Fever', I was hurt so bad. I was pretty far along in my career at that point. I'd never had anything rejected; I'd never really even had a comment. So when that happened, it was really just a board to the forehead. But then, finally, I picked myself up.

Tom Petty

MyselfMoonHurtBadCareerNever

I love cover songs, but I always mess up the words!

Miranda Lambert

LoveWordsAlwaysMessUpSongs

Always when I write my music, I take my guitar, and I improvise always with a melody, you know, lyrics in Spanish. But sometimes I use some words in English. I don't know why. Maybe because I listen to a lot of music in English.

Juanes

MusicWordsGuitarYouSometimes

I'm completely cricketed out. If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man.

Joseph O'Neill

ManHappyCricketNeverWriteOut

There's a final exam in venture every four to six years. The scary thing is you need to get an 'A' in every discipline. You need to be on generational planning, need to be on great deal flow, need be on great outcomes, you need to be on great company building.

David Sze

GreatDisciplineBuildingPlanning

Having power and being in a position of power can really blur your judgement, and it's not always that clear.

Bob Morley

PowerBlurAlwaysPositionJudgement

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

Bob Dylan

MeChaosAcceptSureWhether

She not only kept her lovely figure, she's added so much to it.

Bob Fosse

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