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Thomas Friedman Quotes

I'm from Minnesota. I'm optimistic. I mean, that's just who I am.

Thomas Friedman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

I Am Mean Minnesota Just Who Am

Most of us manage the fateful things that happen in our lives the best we can, certainly not to a Stalin-like 20-year plan.

Best Plan Happen Things Us Most

Great teachers should be rewarded.

Great Teachers Great Teachers Should

Having emotional intelligence allows you to manage your emotions, show empathy, and prevent you from getting distracted. It also helps you solve problems and be a more likable person.

Intelligence Empathy Problems You

A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life. This is true since an article about the condition of deadness would make for turgid reading at best.

Life Myself Best Death Reading True

We will pay a heavy price if we insist on navigating the 21st century with a 20th century mindset.

Mindset Price Will Pay Heavy Insist

Premieres are pretty fun, but probably the most fun was when I went to see 'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,' and I'd just flown in from Africa, and I hadn't even seen the movie yet. So, the first time I saw it was at the premiere. It was really fun.

Time Fun King Africa First Time See

I worked in the family business, which was my father's shoe making company that he had inherited from his father, and that led me to become interested in what could be achieved by a great Italian brand. That became my ambition as a young man.

Diego Della Valle

Family Father Business Great Man Me

It's an embarrassment that we don't have a broad enough consensus among political leaders that true reform should take place. I could count the members of Congress on one hand that took these issues seriously.

DeForest Soaries

Political Enough Place True Hand

The decisions that you make in your career stem out from the experiences you have early on in your career.

Decisions You Early Career Out Stem

In the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra we play such a diversity of music, with 10 arrangers in the band, we don't really worry about whether it's contemporary or not.

Wynton Marsalis

Music Diversity Worry Play Jazz

Great artists are like loaded guns. They are dangerous in anybody's hands.

Great Hands Dangerous Guns Artists

We really wanted to circumvent that online learning curve, where it's virtually impossible to use words to explain music.

Learning Music Words Impossible

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