Matthew Desmond Quotes

Poverty is not just a sad accident, but it's also a result of the fact that some people make a lot of money off low-income families and directly contribute to their poverty.

Matthew Desmond

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If I had to drop everything and just be a songwriter, I would be OK with that because that's the real joy.

John Oates

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If I feel like if there's a few too many people on that path with me, then I want to jump off and find another one.

Maxine Peake

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I grew up in - I personally grew up in a gun culture. I grew up in upstate New York where most families had guns for hunting, target practice, whatever. The vast majority of people I knew never used their guns for any crime.

Stephen J. Dubner

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With modelling, if you want to be good at it, you try to tell a story in a photo and give a person a sense of feeling.

Stephanie Corneliussen

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When I was a child, I dreaded blindness. We used to ask: 'Would we rather be blind or deaf?' I said I'd rather be blind, even though I was scared of it. I couldn't bear not being able to hear music or talk to people.

Sue Townsend

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I was obsessed with politics in the '80s. I've recovered and I'm feeling much better now, thank you.

Steven Van Zandt

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I'm not a person who comes with bodyguards. I'm a simple jhola-kurta kind of girl. So people treat me as a buddy.

Shreya Ghoshal

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Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things.

Mircea Eliade

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I was a guy who needed to go to class, because I had some raw talent that I thought was identifiable, when I finally made a decision to be an actor. And yet I wanted to learn how to really do the stuff. You know, 'How do I get to be a serious actor?'

Jon Voight

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I don't believe we're meant to just die and go to nothing.

David Thibodeau

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America's future as the global leader in innovation remains in the balance until our immigration system is fixed. A large portion of a reform package should focus on updating our system to better reflect the business landscape and market realities of the 21st century.

Brad Feld

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It doesn't matter that I'm taking a fight on a month's notice. I've taken many fights on two seconds' notice.

Brian Ortega

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