Christina Romer Quotes

Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP reduces output over the next three years by nearly 3 percent. The effect is highly significant.

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• I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Want
  • Sure
  • Restaurant

• Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Up
  • Men
  • Look

• I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • School
  • Popular
  • Fact

• Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Mind
  • Rest
  • Slavery

• I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Up
  • Family
  • Father

• I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Man
  • Holy
  • Holiness

• Pain is the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being. Then those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death!

  

  Ram Dass
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Pain

• I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Work
  • Help
  • Better

• I love everything to be organized and clean... all the time.

  

  Carlos Pena, Jr.
  • Time
  • Clean
  • Organized

• A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty.

  

  Lane Evans
  • Important
  • Education
  • Health

• After 9/11, I changed a lot of the ways I viewed the world. I realized my comedy and my politics and my view of the world did not match. I had to start writing from my heart.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • World
  • Writing
  • Heart

• I was about nine years old when a teacher administered my IQ test. Unfortunately, as I was nine, I didn't know that I needed to keep the paperwork for future reference.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Future
  • Teacher
  • Test

• I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Past

• We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste.

  

  Wendell H. Ford
  • Problem
  • Need
  • Nation

• No no there wasn't any planned 14th season, we all saw the writing on the wall. The ratings had been going down and so fourth, that curve goes on every show and in everybody's life.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Wall

• I talk to younger actor types, and they bring up that word, 'brand,' and it's like, 'All right, if that's the way you want to look at yourself.' Diet Pepsi's a brand; you're a human being.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Up
  • Want
  • Yourself

• When online business first appeared, a lot of operations would take your order and then disappear.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Business
  • First
  • Disappear

• Unlike the messier MySpace, Facebook has a cleaner and easier-to-customize interface and is much more, as Zuckerberg once described it to me, 'utilitarian.' I would call it useful and more relevant than other competitors, and a white-label version would likely be a hit.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Me
  • Useful
  • Facebook

• Stars are the daisies that begem The blue fields of the sky.

  

  David Macbeth Moir
  • Sky
  • Blue
  • Stars

• Whenever I go to a new city, whether visiting or vacationing, I would always make that a point to get to the record store early on, just to get my bearings and see what was going on around town.

  

  Gary Calamar
  • City
  • Always
  • Early

• The circulation of capital realizes value, while living labour creates value.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Value

• I believe a child dying between a couple either makes you stronger, or it doesn't.

  

  Mayte Garcia
  • Believe
  • Couple
  • Dying

• What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be.

  

  Benjamin Franklin Fairless
  • Congress
  • Members
  • Supreme Court

• Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP reduces output over the next three years by nearly 3 percent. The effect is highly significant.

  

  Christina Romer