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'm not perfect; no one is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. I think you try to learn from those mistakes.
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If our dreams are sincere desires to achieve, not mere pipe-dreams, there is something deep within ourselves which comes out to meet them and helps to make them realities.
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There is no greater gift to future generations than that we do the work God has asked us to do: love one another, that the world might be made right.
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That well by reason men it call may The daisie, or els the eye of the day, The emprise, and floure of floures all.
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It is a law woven into the nature of man, attested by history, by science, by literature and art, and by dally experience, that strength of mind and force of character are the supreme rulers of human affairs.
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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.
