Thomas Friedman Quotes

Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.

Thomas Friedman

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PositiveChangeHistoryGreatWrong

There's something about football that's exciting. The defense is trying to shut you down and you're trying to blow people up.

Robert Griffin III

FootballPeopleTryingYouDownUp

Everybody enjoys when a woman is her own character in a movie or otherwise.

Amber Heard

CharacterWomanOwnHerMovie

Social systems have values - arguments baked into their design. For example, Twitter's core argument seems to be, 'Everything should be public, and messages should find the largest audience possible.' Snapchat's might be, 'Communication should be private and ephemeral.'

Robin Sloan

CommunicationDesignValuesFind

I hope my daughter will be able to see shows starring Asian people that has nothing to do with an Asian story.

Ruthie Ann Miles

DaughterHopePeopleStoryNothing

To be a lawyer was too boring for me, for my personality.

Monica Bellucci

PersonalityMeLawyerBoringToo

Sometimes I've done small parts, like with Spike Lee, but it doesn't matter because you want to work with the director.

Monica Bellucci

WorkSmallYouDoneSometimesWant

Its liquor is like the sweetest dew from Heaven.

Lu Yu

HeavenDewLikeLiquorSweetest

I really truly worry that the debt is one of the single biggest threat to the United States of America, that we're talking about a problem that is multi-trillion in its depth and I think we ought to be cutting more.

Jason Chaffetz

ThinkAmericaWorryProblemTalking

I've gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it's almost like a high. You don't want it to stop. You don't want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.

Dr. Dre

FearSleepYouStopCreatingWant

The strategy we need to pursue is one of recovering our time - to push back on our hours of work. We need to form a new alliance between feminist groups, labor unions, child advocates, progressive corporations, and the federal government insofar as it's willing to pursue a family-friendly agenda.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

WorkTimeGovernmentChildPushNew

My sole recreations consist in dancing English hornpipes and cutting capers. Italy is a land of sleep; I am always drowsy here.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

SleepI AmLandAlwaysDancingHere

Everybody has fallen down or been disappointed in love. Where you truly shine is when you get back up.

Sherry Argov

LoveShineYouBackDownBack Up

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