Matthew Desmond Quotes

I don't think we can fix poverty without fixing housing, and I don't think we can address housing without understanding landlords.

Matthew Desmond

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A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that's it.

Jim Lehrer

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There are still forces in America that want to divide us along racial lines, religious lines, sex, class. But we've come too far; we've made too much progress to stop or to pull back. We must go forward. And I believe we will get there.

John Lewis

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It's a long road, so we are just trying to stay focused and grounded and keep moving forward. I'll take it, though.

Sturgill Simpson

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Sunday, there's not a lot of structure. I might spend an hour thinking about why I don't exercise, and feeling very guilty about not exercising. I tried running, over 10 years ago. It didn't really take.

Roz Chast

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If I start tracing, I bet I will find a writer in my family tree.

Mary Gauthier

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We have every interest in seeing that the military use of nuclear power will be contained.

Joschka Fischer

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Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.

Bruce Dickinson

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The main point for me is that toys are incredibly more important than we realized.

Brian Sutton-Smith

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Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship.

William L. Jenkins

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I want to get the maximum out of my career. Football is my life. And when my career is over, I want to look after my family to help my children. That is all.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

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I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

Susan Cain

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Jon Scoffield was an incredible director and producer at ATV. I met him when I was 30 and he made great things happen in my career. He's still alive, but we're no longer in touch.

Nigel Lythgoe

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