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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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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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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Scientific progress on a broad front results from the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in the manner dictated by their curiosity for exploration of the unknown. Freedom of inquiry must be preserved under any plan for Government support of science...
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Science is what we do to keep us from lying to ourselves
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I was not a gigantic fan of 'The A-Team' as a kid. I was a huge 'Miami Vice' fan. So for me, not necessarily to say that I put a 'Miami Vice'ish spin on 'The A-Team,' but for me, what I was most intrigued by was this notion of these four guys, these four kind of special operators.
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Secrets can eat you alive. They break down your soul. It's better to have them in the open
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The history of black women in the economy is rooted in the legacy of slavery. Enslaved black women were forced to provide care work, unpaid, for white families.
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Of course I knew that writing was terrifically hard work and that there was no secret code, as in a video game, that would unlock Tolstoy-mode, enabling me to crank out canon-worthy novellas before lunch.
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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.
