Matthew Desmond Quotes

What we're seeing is that even in high poverty neighborhoods, the average cost of renting is quickly approaching the total income of welfare recipients and low wage workers.

Matthew Desmond

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I had my nose done when I was 16 years old, and I'll be honest: it did change my life.

Jillian Michaels

LifeChangeMy LifeDoneOldYears

I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth.

Jock Sturges

AdmitWillBirthAlwaysObvious

When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was answerable.

Jock Sturges

WorkDoingQuestionYearsStarted

I try not to fake anything.

Jessica Chastain

FakeTryAnything

Whoever has not experienced the pleasure of taking a young lady to her first game of ball should seize the first opportunity to do so. Her remarks about plays, her opinions of different players and the umpire, and the questions she will ask concerning the game, are all too funny to be missed.

John Montgomery Ward

FunnyOpportunityGameQuestionsShe

You have to do the research. If you don't know about something, then you ask the right people who do.

Spike Lee

PeopleResearchYouKnowAskRight

One of the things that attracts me to vintage and antique things is they have stories, and even if I don't know the stories, I make them up.

Mary Kay Andrews

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Emotional hurt, you gotta let that go. Walk away and let it be. So many highs and lows, but if you keep being down, you'll never get up.

Micky Ward

WalkHurtYouDownGoNever

I don't really collect anything. I grew up in a family that collected things, and then they'd get sick, and people die, and then they have their basements full of stuff that goes from one box to the next, so I try not to get sentimental with stuff. I just try to collect memories; I guess that would be it.

Derek Cianfrance

FamilyMemoriesPeopleSickDieTry

The way to do well is to do well.

Donald Rumsfeld

WayWell

The most important thing I've done at work has been to surround myself with amazing people who I trust and empower fully to do stuff better than I could.

Clara Shih

WorkMyselfTrustPeopleAmazing

Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.

Bodhidharma

MindRealFictionAnythingOwnHis

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