Christina Romer Quotes
As a former member of President Obama's economic team, I have a soft spot for the fiscal stimulus legislation he signed just a month after his inauguration.
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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I stay true to myself, my daughter. I just remember where I came from - I remember what I'm coming from - and then I remember why I do what I do.
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When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.
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And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.
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Sleep is the best meditation.
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The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty.
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We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
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I will take the subway and look at certain women and think 'God, that woman's story will never be told. How come that lady doesn't get a movie about her?'
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I love Madrid.
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The key thing about force protection is... if you focus too much on force protection, and you disengage yourself from the community, you're putting yourself at greater risk because you need to interact with the community in a positive way to gain the intelligence you need.
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Vegetarian and frugal it may be, but the chickpea is one of the most versatile ingredients you could keep in your cupboards.
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My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
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Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
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The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.
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People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
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Dieting by portion control doesn't work because one is constantly fighting addictive drives.
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I really would have liked to love, but I didnt trust myself to allow it.
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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I started playing around with GoPros on my own to get some cool footage. But it's actually become a big training tool for my team and me.
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After 14 years of running DonorsChoose.org as someone who had never written a line of code, I did do a three-month night school course. After all these years, I could at least speak some of the same vocabulary and have a first-hand appreciation for what my colleagues on the engineering team are doing.
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As a former member of President Obama's economic team, I have a soft spot for the fiscal stimulus legislation he signed just a month after his inauguration.
