Christina Romer Quotes

Honest talk about the deficit is risky. Voters are more enthusiastic about the abstract notion of deficit reduction than about the painful details of accomplishing it.

Christina Romer

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Faith
  • Being
  • Without

• I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Different
  • Girl

• I'd love to do a movie like 'Bullitt.'

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Love
  • Movie
  • Like

• We lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves; yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to re-make in the likeness of the former world they knew.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • World
  • Men
  • Victory

• The emphasis should be on why we do a job.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Why
  • Job
  • Should

• I try to keep it the same, try to stay humble.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Same
  • Try
  • Humble

• South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • Great
  • Government
  • Values

• You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings!

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Color

• I've actually been turned down for jobs because I was in Playboy.

  

  Karen McDougal
  • Down
  • Because
  • Playboy

• I'm impressed with how professional they are and what they can get an animal to do. I mean, dogs and cats - that's one thing. But when you get into the larger animals, that's a different thing all together.

  

  M. Emmet Walsh
  • Different
  • Together
  • Animal

• I was a dancer, and my father was a dancer, so I really grew up in that environment.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Up
  • Father
  • Environment

• There's such an immediate intimacy with film that you just don't get in theater.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • You
  • Film
  • Just

• Kanga said to Roo, 'Drink up your milk first, dear, and talk afterwards.' So Roo, who was drinking his milk, tried to say that he could do both at once . . . and had to be patted on the back and dried for quite a long time afterwards.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Who Am I?

  

  Ramana Maharshi

• If you can’t feel it, it must be real.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Real

• Constantly ask yourself, 'What level is above this one?' This makes things different. Take personal problems for example. Problems are not solved by choosing between this and that. The very need to choose indicates misunderstanding. Problems are solved by outgrowing both this and that.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Different

• My native country was full of youthful promise; Europe was rich in the accumulated treasures of age.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Country
  • Age
  • Promise

• To a visitor who asked to become his disciple the Master said, 'You may live with me, but don't become my follower.' 'Whom, then, shall I follow?' 'No one. The day you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.'

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Live
  • May
  • Truth

• Our yearnings are homesicknesses for heaven; our sighings are for God, just as children that cry themselves asleep away from home, and sob in their slumber, know not that they sob for their parents. The soul's inarticulate moanings are the affections yearning for the Infinite, and having no one to tell them what it is that ails them.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Heaven
  • Yearnings
  • Homesicknesses

• I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want to say more in my art.

  

  T. Allen Lawson
  • Up
  • Art
  • Canvas

• Sitting in an English Garden waiting for the sun If the sun don't come You get a tan from standing in the English rain.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Sun
  • English Garden
  • English rain

• Our model citizen is a sophisticate who before puberty understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know how to produce a potato.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Age
  • Baby
  • Model

• My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they're all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family, from generations ago.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Family
  • Spiritual
  • Grandmother

• Honest talk about the deficit is risky. Voters are more enthusiastic about the abstract notion of deficit reduction than about the painful details of accomplishing it.

  

  Christina Romer