Matthew Desmond Quotes

Public-sector union organisers have told me about how firefighters, police officers, and nurses can no longer afford to live in the cities they serve and protect.

Matthew Desmond

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Apple Music is about getting things early and pushing them out.

Jimmy Iovine

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If someone criticizes me, I strike back.

Romario

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I did not start out thinking I'm going to become a feminist poet. It was a tag I was given.

Rupi Kaur

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Written reports stifle creativity.

Ross Perot

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Growing up, I read all three of Frederick Douglass' autobiographies by the time I was 12.

Michael Tubbs

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In the Dead Sea Scrolls, there are many Aramaic texts from the time of Jesus, so one can get a pretty good idea of what the language of Jesus looked liked.

Jay Parini

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I don't believe that you have to dress in a masculine way to seem powerful. I think that the way a woman dresses doesn't have to be so aggressive. Being feminine is a powerful feature in itself. Power is in a person's demeanor.

Jason Wu

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I'm an average, everyday girl.

Chloe Grace Moretz

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Pennsylvania is home to some of the hardest-working, toughest, most decent people in America.

Bob Casey, Jr.

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It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

Atom Egoyan

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Our dog died from licking our wedding picture.

Phyllis Diller

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Friends of friends had bands in college or in their early 20s and had a moment where they had some kind of interest from a record label or manager. It's always interesting how people handle those decisions and those moments.

Noah Baumbach

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