Christina Romer Quotes

Many of my students assume that government protection is the only thing ensuring decent wages for most American workers. But basic economics shows that competition between employers for workers can be very effective at preventing businesses from misbehaving.

Christina Romer

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GovernmentCompetitionEconomics

The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.

Jim Clyburn

TimeDeserveMinimum WageLineFive

I get butterflies before I go out to say hello at a party.

Joan Rivers

PartyGoSayHelloOutGet

To work on the actual location I think is great. This thing of going to Canada and pretending you're in New York, it's terrible.

Jessica Lange

WorkGreatNew YorkThinkYouNew

But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.

Andy Hertzfeld

LeadershipGoodPassionGreatThink

In fact, it is often times a detriment for the Government to preemptively legislate on an issue before we can either define it or grasp its impact.

Steve Buyer

GovernmentImpactDefineFactGrasp

I never get enough sleep, even when I travel. I wake up in the middle of the night, either with the help of my kids or because my mind is going. I wish I got eight hours a night, but it is more like an interrupted six or seven. The secret is to go to sleep well before midnight.

Summer Sanders

TravelSleepMindNightWake UpGo

As a youth, I was much more of a Zionist. But Israel was very different then. Israel's changed, and so have I.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

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I grew up in a weird environment. My mother's head of the home video division, basically. She played a big role in the invention of DVD - she won an Emmy for it. Or rather, she's part of a group that won an Emmy for it.

Tom King

MotherHomeWeirdEnvironmentGroup

Remember the movie 'The Matrix,' where virtual information popped up to help inform physical day-to-day reality? Such things won't always be the stuff of Hollywood. If the Internet is accessible via contact lenses, biographies will appear next to the faces of the people we talk to, and we will see subtitles if they speak a foreign language.

Michio Kaku

PeopleSpeakRealityLanguageHelp

I think the cool thing about Gap is that it's just such a classic brand.

Miles Heizer

CoolThinkBrandClassicGapJust

It is for others one must learn to do everything; for there lies the secret of happiness.

Jules Verne

HappinessLearnOthersSecretMust

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Joseph Addison

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