Thomas Friedman Quotes

I attended public school with the same group of kids from K through 12.

Thomas Friedman

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SchoolGroupSameThroughKids

Also, to be honest, my dad wanted me to be an athlete. And I think all sons want to prove something to their dad. So now, aged 35, I want to see what I can achieve physically.

Joe Manganiello

MeThinkI CanAchieveWantAthlete

Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.

Jerry Saltz

ArtStrongEarlyHeightsOutComing

I'm not photographing anything naked these days. I haven't been concentrating on bodies recently.

Robert Mapplethorpe

NakedDaysAnythingBeenBodies

The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.

Anish Kapoor

LanguageIdeaObjectItselfUnto

I'm always working. If I'm not in my studio I become quite nervous.

Jeff Koons

NervousBecomeAlwaysWorkingStudio

When you're writing, you're only a brain and some fingers, but drumming, you're involving all four limbs, and you're hearing stuff and you're converting your ideas into physical motions, getting physical feedback from things you are touching - it's pretty cool. It's a really a nice contrast to writing.

Michael Azerrad

IdeasCoolBrainWritingYouNice

Doing research for 'Penumbra,' I read quite a bit about the early history of printing, and the more I did, the more it sounded like... the Internet today. There was crazy competition and upheaval; there were constant arguments about new techniques, new materials, new machines; and, of course, there were fortunes to be made.

Robin Sloan

TodayHistoryCompetitionResearch

I think the word 'soul' - it depends on what you define by 'soul.' If you're defining it as a mystical aura that is outside the body, I cannot measure that. If you're talking about soul as human nature, the rank of spectrum of behaviors and reactions that we know humans produce under certain circumstances, that is measurable.

Miguel Nicolelis

NatureSoulThinkTalkingYouBody

I believe together, with the OAS, everybody condemned the coup d'etat, and everybody is demanding that President Zelaya should go back to the presidency, and they should call for general elections and realize an election. That's what we want. And I believe that President Obama made the right decisions condemning the coup d'etat.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

TogetherBelieveDecisionsBackWant

The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other.

JR

Social MediaThinkMediaMoreSocial

Agents and publishers are always looking for something 'different,' a fresh viewpoint and a new voice, not just re-hashed versions of stuff that's gone before.

Lisa Jewell

LookingVoiceNewAlwaysFreshGone

Stories matter to me. I look for a good script, story, and a strong part.

Disha Patani

GoodMeStoryStrongLookMatter

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