Thomas Friedman Quotes

If the Republican Party continues to take the view that there must be no tax increases, we're stuck. Capitalism can't work without safety nets or fiscal prudence, and we need both in a sustainable balance.

Thomas Friedman

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I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command.

John Bolton

ResponsibilityWarThinkAmericanUp

I read Noam Chomsky. I like some of Gore Vidal's stuff.

John Cusack

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Back in high school, I wrote a novel about a character named Bart Simpson. I thought it was a very unusual name for a kid at the time. I had this idea of an angry father yelling 'Bart,' and Bart sounds kind of like bark - like a barking dog.

Matt Groening

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I am thrilled to be joining 'CBS News' and to have the opportunity to collaborate with some of our profession's most talented journalists.

Steve Capus

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It's really only all about music. It's not like a big rocket scientist kind of philosophy or anything.

Tommy Mottola

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Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

Rudolf Arnheim

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I am ready to sacrifice everything in completing the unfinished agenda of our noble jihad... until there is no bloodshed in Afghanistan and Islam becomes a way of life for our people.

Mohammed Omar

LifeSacrificeI AmPeopleReady

Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is.

Chris Abani

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My mom's half-Irish, and my dad's half-Irish. We don't know much about my mom's side, but my dad's mom came from Belfast and married my grandfather, who was from Wales.

Coco Rocha

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Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

Antoine Rivarol

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The joy that isn't shared dies young.

Anne Sexton

JoyYoungSharedDies

Russia! Russia... Everything in you is open, desolate and level; your squat towns barely protrude in the midst of the plains like dots, like counters; there is nothing to tempt or enchant the onlooker's gaze. But what is this inscrutable, mysterious force that draws me to you?

Nikolai Gogol

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