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Thomas Friedman Quotes

I love America. I think it's the best country in the world. But I also think we're not tending to our sauce.

Thomas Friedman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Love Best World Think America Sauce

There are a lot of actors out there who don't have an arena to present their stuff.

Present Out Who Stuff Lot Arena

When you have children, your house smells very unpleasant all the time.

Children Time You House Your Smells

It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them - all of the lawmakers - have hearts to do what's right, and they all are passionate about it.

Work Growing Up Compromise Think Up

My natural bent is to have an overabundance of energy, and motion-capture essentializes your every breath, your every move. Seeing yourself through that mask, you realize how far you can pull back and make the performance even more powerful.

Yourself Performance Energy Mask You

The Lord's Prayer is the most perfect piece of poetry. I always feel at peace and moved when I recite it.

Prayer Peace Poetry Feel Perfect

I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth.

I Am Independent My Own First Always

I'm a hypochondriac. Yesterday it was brain damage from the vodka the night before. Today, heart attack - my arm and chest started hurting at the same time.

Lisa Marie Presley

Today Heart Time Brain Night Same

I believe that, as Americans, our freedoms come from God and not government, and include the rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Life Happiness God Government Rights

I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I started writing short stories, sort of as treatments for the film scripts, and I found I enjoyed writing short stories far more than I enjoyed writing film scripts. Then the short stories got longer and longer and suddenly, I had novels.

Good Writing Short More Write Film

I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.

Anthony Minghella

Good Bad Movies Hold Only Books

We tried our best for so long to make the heaviest record we could make.

Best Long Make Our Tried Record

We need to diversify our economy, and the energy industry would be a great place to begin that diversification.

Great Energy Place Need Economy Our

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