Christina Romer Quotes
Most arguments for instituting or raising a minimum wage are based on fairness and redistribution. Even if workers are getting a competitive wage, many of us are deeply disturbed that some hard-working families still have very little.
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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What people love about Santorum is he is who is he. He speaks his words. He loves God. He loves his country, and he loves gays.
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A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.
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Quality is everyone's responsibility.
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You only can rest when have the truth, even when it's horrible.
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If you don't lose, you cannot enjoy the victories. So I have to accept both things.
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The thing that's wonderful about social media is that we are able to give a voice to the voiceless and to help educate each other. I benefit from it as much as I provide those lessons.
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When you're a standup comic, you get up and you try stuff, and you're always kind of seeing how far you can push things.
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I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.
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When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
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The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in Iraq. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.
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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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Like the women in my family, I've found the women in my lab a hard-nosed, ambitious lot who have gone on to be faculty members at top universities. In my own family, it is my father who is prone to bursting into tears.
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I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators.
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I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.
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Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.
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I am done with the cliched heroine roles. I can't go to work without a challenge. I want to do films that drive me, films in which I am a part of the main plot.
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In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.
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I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
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Another aspect of our work is multimedia teleconferencing.
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It's cool to have a well run, comfortable and inviting home.
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Stores are never nice to people. They're nice to credit cards.
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Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity.
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Most arguments for instituting or raising a minimum wage are based on fairness and redistribution. Even if workers are getting a competitive wage, many of us are deeply disturbed that some hard-working families still have very little.
