Matthew Desmond Quotes

National data on evictions aren't collected, although national data on foreclosures are. And so if anyone wants to, kind of, get to know any statistical research about evictions, they have to really dig in the annals of legal records.

Matthew Desmond

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When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.

Jimi Hendrix

ManMeThingsCallHeavyGet

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

Robert Green Ingersoll

DiamondsPlacesWherePolished

You don't really think about 3D when you're acting. As a director, you do.

Andy Serkis

ThinkYouActingDirectorReally

In our house, the name for all athletic shoes - any that weren't dress or 'church' shoes - was 'tennis shoes,' or 'tennies.'

Steve Rushin

ShoesDressNameChurchHouseOur

Everything that you want Santa to be, he is.

Mick Foley

YouWantEverythingSantaHe

In Sufi terms, there are two very interesting notions of transcendence. One is to gaze out at the universe and to comprehend that what you see out there reflects what you are. The other one is to look inside yourself and recognise that the universe is present there.

Mohsin Hamid

YourselfPresentUniverseInteresting

Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker.

Mitt Romney

HopeTogetherJobAmericaNew Job

So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed for the whole, and are unique.

Josiah Royce

LiveUniqueStriveWholeFarOur

I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.

Johnny Depp

HateYouI CanDoneWantShy

'Tomorrowland' is very much the dream role for me. I've always wanted to do a movie like this. Movies like this aren't made anymore, and it's so cool that I get to be a part of it. I get to do something new and crazy every day, and my character goes through so many different things. I get to do all of it. It's awesome.

Britt Robertson

CharacterDayMeCoolCrazyDream

Any society that could come here could pick up the lights from New York. What should we do about that? Should we darken New York from now until the last human expires? Would we want to turn off all the radars at JFK airport?

Seth Shostak

New YorkSocietyLightsNewAirport

My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function.

Thomas Steinbeck

FatherPatriotismTrueOwnAbove

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