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Thomas Friedman

(1953) Columnist United States

208 quotes in 1464 categories

A fanatic golfer who rushes to the course whenever three free hours appear shows Thomas Friedman’s love for the sport. He also talks about the financial crisis deepening a hole that needs a big and smart stimulus. Finally, he marvels at how many people can now find endless information on their own.

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Thomas Friedman is a columnist from the United States, best known for Life and death on the corporate battlefield.

Quick Facts About Thomas Friedman

Born: July 20, 1953
Nationality: United States
Profession: Columnist
Notable works: Life and death on the corporate battlefield
Known for: The World Is brow, Friedman Unit

About Thomas Friedman

He has won the Pulitzer Prize three times. Friedman writes about foreign affairs, global trade, the Middle East, globalization and environmental issues.

Awards & Honors

National Book Award George Polk Award Guggenheim Fellowship Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting Pulitzer Prize for Commentary National Book Award for Nonfiction Carl Sagan Award for Public Understanding of Science Marshall Scholarship

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Carey McWilliams Award The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism honorary doctorate of Hasselt University Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting

Quotes by Thomas Friedman

Every sport needs its temple, its cathedral.

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Cathedral

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Change your leaders, not your light bulbs.

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Bulbs

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Guantanamo Bay is the anti-Statue of Liberty.

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Freedom

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A vision without resources is an hallucination.

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Dreams

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Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.

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Business

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America needs rebooting.

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America

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We have to be the best global citizens we can be.

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Being the best

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

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McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the builder of the F-15.

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Do you know what my favorite renewable fuel is? An ecosystem for innovation.

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America is interested in change and reform in the Middle East but in a stable way.

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America

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I've always enjoyed the communal side of Jewish life.

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Big breakthroughs happen when what is suddenly possible meets what is desperately needed

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Big break

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Remember, in China when you are one in a million, there are 1,300 other people just like you.

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China

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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…

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Benjamin Netanyahu understands that the standing ovation he got in Congress this year was not for his politics. That ovation was bought…

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Congress

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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…

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Adventure

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Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.

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Change

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What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain.

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“French voters are trying to preserve a 35-hour work week in a world where Indian engineers are ready to work a 35-hour…

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Combating climate change requires government policy, and most conservatives hate the idea of more government regulation. Because they hate the prescription, they…

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Change

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That's right-the striking thing about greenhouse gases is the diversity of sources that emit them. A herd of cattle belching can be…

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You take one bomber and deploy him in Baghdad, and another is manufactured in Riyadh the next day. It's exactly like when…

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The country that owns green, that dominates that industry, is going to have the most energy security, national security, economic security, competitive…

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Company

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We've gone from thinking the fuels that powered our growth were inexpensive, inexhaustible and benign to understanding they are exhaustible, expensive and…

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A 2011 report produced by Forrester Research estimated that the revenue generated through the sales of smartphone and tablet applications will reach…

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Only if you give the Palestinians something to lose is there a hope that they will agree to moderate their demands… I…

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There is nothing more valuable than great classroom instruction. But let's stop putting the whole burden on teachers. We also need better…

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The Middle East would always be an important trading partner in just a market sense, like America is a big market for…

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America

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I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knocked…

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Business

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All one needs to do is just to go to any hospital in America and see the number of Pakistani or Indian…

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America

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Golf has an ambivalent relationship with the environment. On one hand, it's a great preserver of open spaces. Golf doesn't pave the…

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Environment

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I have no problem with a war for oil-if we accompany it with a real program for energy conservation. But when we…

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I think that the drama of people rising up demanding their own freedom is one that resonates very deeply with America. I…

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America

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Watching both the health care and climate/energy debates in Congress, it is hard not to draw the following conclusion: There is only…

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Advantage

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What I want is natural gas to be a bridge to a cleaner energy future, not a dam against a cleaner energy…

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Bridges

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I'm a radical pro-immigration advocate. I'm not saying we just look at the Muslim world or we just look at China, we…

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America

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I think no country is going to be immune from the Arab awakening because the Arab awakening is driven by deep human…

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

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The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist.

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Fist

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Thomas Friedman by topic

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