Emily Oster If you have a traditional view of economics, you’re probably thinking of Ben Bernanke making Fed policy, or the guys creating financial derivatives at Goldman Sachs. – Emily Oster Ben Quotes Bernanke Quotes Creating Quotes Derivatives Quotes Economics Quotes Fed Quotes Financial Quotes Goldman Quotes Guys Quotes Policy Quotes Sachs Quotes Thinking Quotes Traditional Quotes View Quotes The claim that SpongeBob makes your child dumber is a causal claim. If you do X, Y will happen. To prove that, you’d have to show that if you forced the children in the no-TV households to watch SpongeBob and changed nothing else about their lives, they would do worse in school. I think that there’s a real sense in which pregnancy should be something that you do with your doctor, but I think that for a lot of women the time you have with your doctors is limited and it can be difficult to get all of the answers to your questions.
Carol Moseley Braun New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers – one from either party. – Carol Moseley Braun
Alain Ducasse My son, Arzhel, is two, and he eats vegetables twice a day. We have a vegetable garden on our farm in the Southwest, and he gets two baskets, one over each arm, and says, ‘Garden, Papa!’ and then he eats what he picks. – Alain Ducasse
Haile Selassie The commentators of 1963 speak, in discussing Africa, of the Monrovia States, the Brazzaville Group, the Casablanca Powers, of these and many more. Let us put an end to these terms. What we require is a single African organisation through which Africa’s single voice may be heard, within which Africa’s problems may be studied and resolved. – Haile Selassie
Allen GinsbergPoetry Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. – Allen Ginsberg
Peter Kay Bernard Manning is controversial but he had incredible timing. I wrote the character of Brian Potter in ‘Phoenix Nights’ for him to play but unfortunately he was too poorly to do it. I thought it would have been perfect casting but it didn’t happen. – Peter Kay
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