Matthew Desmond Quotes

Families who get evicted tend to live in worse housing than they did before, and they live in neighborhoods with higher poverty rates and higher crime rates than they did before.

Matthew Desmond

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LivePovertyCrimeHousingGetWho

If you don't love it, you can't suffer thru all the despair that comes with it. Keep doing it because you love it.

Robert Stack

LoveDoingYouDespairSufferKeep

I went to my first school dance on the set of 'Spider-Man.' The funny thing is, it wasn't actually real. I didn't choose my dress or my date or anything about it. I just showed up for work.

Angourie Rice

WorkFunnyDanceSchoolDressFirst

Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older and thought that one could approach something with a little more subtlety.

John Schlesinger

BestControlFaceThoughtI Can

I have periods where I listen to regular rap, Jay-Z, Eminem and Lil Wayne. The next day I might have some Christian alternative music. The next day I have on some dance music. It all varies what I listen to.

Steve Blake

MusicDayDanceChristianListen

The trouble that they see me in is a part of my life that I'm working on.

Rodney King

LifeMeMy LifeTroubleSeeWorking

I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long.

Michelle Shocked

LongShyHeroesOutHangAble

Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands of messages and voices bombard us from the moment we wake, fighting for our attention. All we see and hear, all day long, is news. And most of it is bad.

Joseph Prince

MomentDaySocial MediaForwardBad

Of course we need action, but it should be Just action.

Clare Short

ActionNeedJustCourseShould

I grew up on comic books. 'X-Men' was my favorite team; Wolverine was my guy. At 8 years old, I dressed up as Wolverine with Adamantium claws that I made out of aluminum!

Brian Tee

TeamDressedOldYearsOutUp

When I had my cancer, the chemotherapy took my hair away. So then I decided I would just keep it short, and this is my signature now. The great thing about it is that I am a bit of a chameleon, so you can put a wig on me and I look totally different.

Anthony Warlow

GreatI AmMeHairShortLook

Since the age of 6, I've always wanted to go to space.

Peter Diamandis

AgeSpaceGoAlwaysWantedSince

I'm tortured because I care.

Shawn Mendes

CareBecauseTorturedI Care

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