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Christina Romer Quotes

The central question is whether Medicare and Medicaid should remain entitlement programs guaranteeing a certain amount of care, as Democrats believe, or become defined contribution programs in which federal spending is capped, as Republicans suggest.

Christina Romer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 25, 1958

Topics

Believe Care Contribution Become

When I was 13, I won a scholarship to boarding school. My parents let me choose whether to go, and I decided I wanted to. Afterwards, I went to Cambridge to study law - in a way, I was carrying the academic hopes of my family, as Mum and Dad left school at 14.

Family School Parents Me Law Choose

The Padma Shri came as a very pleasant surprise. I am deeply honoured. I don't know what I did to deserve it, but I must have done something right to be honoured by our government.

Government I Am Surprise Know Done

Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich.

Money Rich Wiser Belief Poor Take

When I was running the Troubadour, there was this transition from the classic singer/songwriter Jackson Browne types to bands like Black Flag, the Dead Kennedys, and Fear. Those are just some that come to mind. Oh, and Adam Ant! The Fear fans wanted to 'crush' the Ants. These guys hated each other.

Fear Mind Black Transition Flag

I can play in front of 30,000 people at Fenway and not be nervous at all. But I get really nervous in front of kids.

People I Can Play Nervous Get Kids

The more I read my Bible the more I veered away from the Jehovah's Witnesses.

Bible More Away Read Jehovah

People don't remember that during the Fifties and Sixties there was a Cold War, and kids were getting under their desks during school because they thought they were going to get bombed. So it wasn't really that ideal at all.

School War People Cold Thought Get

As a result of World War II, European artists migrated to America, enlarging the scene and diminishing Paris as the center. America was beginning its dominance of the art world with the emergence of the Abstract Expressionists.

Art Beginning War World Result

The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.

Power Yourself World You Place More

I remember going out to raise my Series A and ending up with multiple term sheets when I had gone to Silicon Valley probably four times at that point and coming back with nothing.

Ending Remember Back Nothing Out Up

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.

Colors Connection Knowing Paint Own

Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in.

Education Quality Me Reach Village

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