Christina Romer Quotes

The basic idea that if you increase government spending or you cut people's taxes that stimulates the economy and lowers the unemployment rate, is a very widely accepted idea. It's in every economics textbook, that's what we teach our undergraduates, and I certainly try to teach them the truth.

Christina Romer

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• Missing from much of the public debate is discussion of the simple fact that lurking behind every terroristic act is a specific political antecedent. That does not justify either the perpetrator or his political cause. Nonetheless, the fact is that almost all terrorist activity originates from some political conflict and is sustained by it as well.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Political
  • Simple
  • Missing

• Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • You
  • Comedy

• I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Love
  • Like

• It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Time
  • Men
  • Promise

• You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Home
  • Night
  • Nice

• I'm letting inspiration move me, in whatever direction it may, without concern if this sounds too rap or too indie, or there's too many words in it.

  

  K. Flay
  • Words
  • Inspiration
  • Direction

• Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Different
  • Evolution
  • Brains

• Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Job
  • Struggle
  • Politics

• We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.

  

  Ted Danson
  • You
  • Start
  • Looking

• Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Teaching
  • Distraction

• When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

  

  Becky G
  • Writing
  • Start
  • Guitar

• We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Love
  • Keep
  • Compliments

• I first learned the power of trust in the CIA. There is no question that when I joined the Agency as a covert operations officer, it was still run along the 'old boys' network' model.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Power
  • Question
  • Trust

• The retired L.A.P.D. motor cops who work set security now, all wear the same uniform, they're great guys with great stories, and they're great at their job, providing security on sets.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Work
  • Great
  • Job

• I have this threadbare caftan from the '60s that I got at a vintage store years ago - it's basically a muumuu. My friends are astonished that I wear it, but I love it. It's this light fabric that just moves with me.

  

  Gabrielle Anwar
  • Friends
  • Light
  • Store

• When I was 11 years old, I was a member of 'Press Pack,' which was a thing that would come out in 'The Sunday Times' in England. You'd write articles and send them off and would get a badge saying 'Official Press.' I was really excited about my badge.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • You
  • Old
  • Sunday

• We have met the enemy and he is us.

  

  Walt Kelly
  • Enemy
  • U.S.
  • Met

• I think to get a title shot, you need to have some expressive winnings.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Think
  • You
  • Need

• The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

  

  Lewis Mumford
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Art

• I'm one of those people who have everything in their purses.

  

  Bethenny Frankel
  • People

• The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • People
  • Religion
  • Veil

• There had to be a point where I had to stop feeling sorry for myself.

  

  James Arthur
  • Feeling
  • Stop
  • Sorry

• Thus love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. We never reflect on the man we love without exulting in our choice, while he who has bound us to him by benefits alone rises to our ideas as a person to whom we have in some measure forfeited our freedom.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Freedom

• The basic idea that if you increase government spending or you cut people's taxes that stimulates the economy and lowers the unemployment rate, is a very widely accepted idea. It's in every economics textbook, that's what we teach our undergraduates, and I certainly try to teach them the truth.

  

  Christina Romer
  • People
  • Truth