Thomas Friedman Quotes

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Thomas Friedman

Profession : Journalist

Birth : July 20, 1953

We've gone from thinking the fuels that powered our growth were inexpensive, inexhaustible and benign to understanding they are exhaustible, expensive and toxic. Once you frame the problem that way, people will look at solutions differently.

Thomas Friedman

Every sport needs its temple, its cathedral.

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I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.

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My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.

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A golf course should aspire to generate as much energy as it consumes - golf should be leading the way toward energy net zero.

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Two things are going on at the same time with the flattening of the world: The relentless quest for efficiency is squeezing some of the fat out of life.

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Being one of my sources is exhausting. It's not one interview and you're done. I keep going back until I feel like I understand everything.

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Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time; they're always experimenting and adapting based on what they learn.

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I firmly believe that the next great breakthrough in bioscience could come from a 15-year-old who downloads the human genome in Egypt.

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We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that.

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Yes, the world is now flat for publishing as well.

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America needs rebooting.

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When it comes to dealing with the world's climate and energy challenges, I have a simple rule: change America, change the world.

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No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat.

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

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The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.

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There's nothing like living a little close to the edge that gets you motivated to ensure that you get the credentials you need to succeed.

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When I wrote 'The World Is Flat,' I said the world is flat. Yeah, we're all connected. Facebook didn't exist; Twitter was a sound; the cloud was in the sky; 4G was a parking place; LinkedIn was a prison; applications were what you sent to college; and Skype, for most people, was a typo.

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We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it.

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There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research.

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