Christina Romer Quotes
The stock market crash in October 1929 didn't destroy a particularly large amount of wealth or make people highly pessimistic. Rather, it made companies and consumers very unsure about future income, and so led them to stop spending as they waited for more information.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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I was 18 when I first started working at a restaurant. I was a dishwasher. I only got the job because I wanted to go to Ibiza for vacation, and washing dishes was the only job I could find.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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Our universities also have a lot of foreign students. Are we going to ban them access because in their culture there's a certain type of clothing?
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.
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I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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I think God has a sense of humor, and the way my lessons come from God is very funny. I have to laugh at myself even if it's a tough lesson.
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As a kid I loved John McEnroe. They called me Mac because, while everyone else liked Borg, I was crazy about McEnroe. I tried wearing headbands and sweatbands, and whooping at people. It didn't quite work.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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If I'm not on tour or in the studio, I'm in nature somewhere, usually some kind of ocean. Playing music has afforded me that. It's not lost on me that it's a tremendous opportunity to be able to spend your life being surrounded by nature.
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Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that. Because you never know what's right: what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.
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If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.
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We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths.
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If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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It's the old proverb: 'It is better to give than to receive.' Without knowing it, I had brought along all I needed to survive.
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Every adult has the right to choose who they wish to spend their lives with, and we're all capable of making mistakes, but no one escapes with their self-regard intact.
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I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.
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Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.
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We came out of spring believing that they each had a scrimmage or two that they were good at and one or two that they made some mistakes at. Each of them did that and in our mind there was not a separation going into Thursday's practice. I feel it's unfortunate that so many of you in the media have ranked them and have put them in place so that players have to hear that the entire summer. It's really not fair.
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The stock market crash in October 1929 didn't destroy a particularly large amount of wealth or make people highly pessimistic. Rather, it made companies and consumers very unsure about future income, and so led them to stop spending as they waited for more information.
