Matthew Desmond Quotes

Eviction reveals people's vulnerability and desperation as well as their ingenuity and guts.

Matthew Desmond

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PeopleVulnerabilityDesperationWell

If you're saying something that people don't want to hear or accept, a significant proportion of them will reply with hostility. Not because they know the facts, or because they have researched it themselves, but because they're so psychologically involved in believing good news that they will oppose it with a reflex.

Jeremy Grantham

GoodPeopleSayingFactsYouKnow

I'm concerned about heart disease. I've raised money to fight heart disease; my dad died of it.

Anderson Cooper

HeartMoneyFightHeart DiseaseDied

A merchant is someone who figures out how to select, how to smell, how to identify, how to feel, how to time, how to buy, how to sell, and how to hopefully have two plus two equal six.

Mickey Drexler

TimeFeelSomeoneSmellEqualOut

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

Lord Byron

LifeWisdomKnowledgeTreeKnow

I try to win the love and approval of strangers, since it didn't work with my family.

Judy Gold

WorkFamilyLoveWinStrangersTry

I do a lot of corporate consulting work. I've been doing it a long time.

Jon Taffer

WorkTimeDoingLongLong TimeBeen

If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something.

Dexter Gordon

MusicBlackKnowCallSomething

At the end of the day, when people say, 'Oh, she's an industry plant,' I'm like, 'No, I just have representation, like every single other artist you listen to.' I'm not the first person to get a manager.

Clairo

DayPeopleEnd Of The DayEndPlant

Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.

Aristophanes

EyesYouMouthWillOpenSee

I am angry about the mammoth, out-of-control social welfare entitlement programs from Washington, D.C., that were supposed to solve our problems. The obvious truth is these impractical, politically motivated programs have irreparably damaged the fabric of our black society and community.

Allen West

TruthCommunityAngryI AmSociety

A lot of restaurants serve good food, but they don't have very good service.

Wolfgang Puck

GoodFoodServiceGood FoodServe

If taxes and government spending are both slashed, then the salutary result will be to lower the parasitic burden of government taxes and spending upon the productive activities of the private sector.

Murray Rothbard

GovernmentResultBurdenWillTaxes

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