Matthew Desmond Quotes

Families, when they get a housing voucher, they move a lot less. They move into better neighborhoods. Their kids go to the same school more consistently. Their kids have more food, and they get stronger. There are massive returns.

Matthew Desmond

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FoodSchoolBetterStrongerGoMore

My goal is to live the truly religious life and express it through my music. If you can live it, there's no problem about the music, because it's part of the whole thing.

John Coltrane

LifeLiveMusicProblemYouGoal

If you want an active schedule, you have to husband your time so you can act on the things that are important.

Robert Pozen

TimeHusbandYouImportantWantAct

The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts of speech and the integration of the sentence.

John Wesley Powell

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The thing about American politics, as I've learned, is there is no choice.

Rob Walton

PoliticsAmericanChoiceLearned

In the next couple of years, part of every film's process is going to be to adjust the images. And it'll be to change the color of an actor's tie or change the little smirky thing he's doing with his mouth. Or you can put in more clouds or move the tree a little bit.

Robert Zemeckis

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You get respect when you give respect. That's how you get respect.

Michael Nutter

RespectYouGiveGetHow

Our educational results lag behind other states, and other nations, but worse still, behind the potential of the kids and the devoted teachers in our classrooms.

Mitch Daniels

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Our cellar home had a kitchen and a combination bedroom and half bath, which meant we had a sink next to the bed. We had no refrigerator, no shower or tub, and no privacy. My parents shared the bedroom with my sister and me.

Lou Holtz

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By Hollywood standards I'm still fat: until you are zero, you are big. I do get cold a lot now. I used to have a lot of layers - now I got to get a fur coat.

Lisa Lampanelli

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Initially, I just used the guitar as a prop. I'd pose with it in front of a mirror in my Kiss makeup when I was skipping school. Then I figured out how to play the main riff to Deep Purple's 'Smoke on the Water' on just the E string. Next, my old man showed me how to play barre chords, and that's when things started getting really heavy.

Dimebag Darrell

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As we grow older I always think, why didn't I do more when I was young, why didn't I risk more?

Chuck Palahniuk

ThinkGrowYoungWhyRiskMore

I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.

Alison Gopnik

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