Christina Romer Quotes
A natural way that an economist approaches a problem is to say, here's where I think the economy is going; this is what we need to deal with the problem.
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I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.
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Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.
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I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.
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Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.
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Fantasy is like an idealized reality, and the core of fantasy is the one person can make a difference.
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I'm the type of person who doesn't want to sit alone in a restaurant or bar.
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Not only am I constantly seeking better performance but also to be a better person, to be respected.
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I'm still the fat kid from high school who never had a date.
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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
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'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.
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I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.
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I became a co-chair of the Congressional Study Group from Germany several years ago with the expressed purpose of helping increase aid to Holocaust survivors.
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I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.
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There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.
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America has always been a land of diversity, basically made up of immigrants, and that is something I want to see continued. It's something I'm proud of when people think of America.
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It's easy to focus on the things that divide us. Sometimes too easy.
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I love stand-up comics, particularly those who have embraced podcasting.
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Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.
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I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would have never played anything but swing music.
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A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.
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And by the influence of heat, light, and electrical powers, there is a constant series of changes; matter assumes new forms, the destruction of one order of beings tends to the conservation of another; solution and consolidation, decay and renovation, are connected; and whilst the parts of the system continue in a state of fluctuation and change, the order and harmony of the whole remain unalterable.
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It's always been my dream to compete.
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Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
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A natural way that an economist approaches a problem is to say, here's where I think the economy is going; this is what we need to deal with the problem.
