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Thomas Friedman Quotes

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.

Thomas Friedman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: July 20, 1953

Topics

World India Valley Silicon Valley

When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe.

Hope World Believe Church Go Said

Playing Karen was so satisfying that it almost cured my acting bug completely. Not that I had conquered the world of acting. It was just that I had something to prove to myself when I started Will & Grace. Now I feel like, okay, well, I've satisfied that.

Myself Grace World Feel Acting Okay

The story is supposed to change; it's supposed to evolve. In making 'Cartel Land,' I ended up with a much, much different story than I started with.

Matthew Heineman

Change Story Land Up Evolve Started

'The Whole Nine Yards' I liked right away. It was kind of a dark comedy at first. And just the idea of being in a movie with Bruce Willis was pretty exciting.

Comedy Dark Kind First Right Pretty

In the early 16th century the Italian physician Jacopo Berengario da Carpi, a pioneer in the science of anatomy, came up with the idea that perhaps 'brain commotion' was caused by the thrust of the soft structure of the brain against the solid case of the skull.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

Science Brain Early Physician Skull

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

Death Sleep Youth Immortality Us

I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about - police and criminals, the criminal justice system.

Michael Connelly

Justice Police Writing World Learn

My legs haven't disabled me. If anything, they've enabled me.

Me Legs Anything Disabled

I'm quite an emotional person. I cry a lot. I do not like conflict, so if I have an argument with my parents, I'll often cry. I become too emotional.

Parents Conflict Argument Person Cry

Peking welcomed me with tremendous parades and gun salutes. The people with me are proud of me, proud that our downtrodden country has taken its place among the great nations. And now, people of America, I ask you, why didn't Eisenhower accord me the same respect?

Respect Great People Me Proud Gun

So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.

Life Poetry Thinking I Can Distance

I'm really glad I had the chance to live in Jensen Beach and Stuart before everything exploded. I'm always going to be fond of that area. For me, it was a sleepy little fishing town, and it kind of represents what Florida was before the development explosion.

Live Beach Fishing Me Chance Kind

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