Matthew Desmond Quotes

Evictions cause job loss. Because it's such a destabilizing, stressful event, they lose their footing in the labor market. It has big impacts on people's health, especially mental health.

Matthew Desmond

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HealthJobPeopleLossLoseLabor

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic - you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

Jerry Seinfeld

GoodYourselfHusbandYouNeedCall

When I am on stage, I give everything. Maybe because of that, I won't last long, but I don't care.

Anna Netrebko

I AmCareLongStageEverythingAm

With my academic achievement in high school, I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that.

Sonia Sotomayor

AchievementSchoolHigh SchoolFast

I'm not sure I would make a direct connection between having press attention as a young person and being interested in the media as an older person. I came to it more organically, coming from a family of Irish Catholic storytellers. Storytelling is a pastime and important part of my family's history and culture.

Rory Kennedy

FamilyHistoryCultureMediaPerson

I have seven uncles, and my dad played bass, they had a band together, that was the family band. And of course as the cousins got older, including myself, we joined a family band. All the cousins played. That's my heritage.

Jon Batiste

FamilyMyselfTogetherHeritageBand

Certain people want to see me solely as a pop act, but there are many different sides to Christina Aguilera besides the pop girl.

Christina Aguilera

GirlPeopleMeWantSidesSee

I want to go to college and go back to Georgetown. It's a really cool place.

Bobby Flay

CollegeCoolBackPlaceGoWant

You'd have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I'd probably want to die in San Sebastian.

Anthony Bourdain

TimeFoodBetterDieFindingYou

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

LifeSimplePhilosophyEmptyScratch

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Thomas Carlyle

ConvictionWorthlessConductUnless

A society that feels itself to be flourishing is likely to interpret everything that happens to its own advantage and in its own image. By contrast, a society that feels confused or in decline often converts any event - however innocuous - into a weapon of self-laceration.

Linda Colley

SocietyConfusedImageContrastOwn

I never got to the point when I felt like running away from it all.

Jamie Redknapp

NeverPointAwayGotRunning Away

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