Amy Chua Quotes
I think if you're a 'tiger parent' early on, you don't need to be a 'helicopter parent' in high school.
Quotes to Explore
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
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President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
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We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.
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I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out. This USO tour is especially meaningful because of the friends I have met and I am honored to be apart of it.
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I did not know I was a Midwesterner until I got there. I just fell in love with the people.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
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We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.
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I hate to lose. It's a bad feeling, but, I mean, it kind of gets you resettled, gets you back right.
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I'm not a sun person.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
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People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
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While in high school, I worked part time at Subway, then at the front desk of the local YMCA, then at a tennis club, until I landed an unpaid internship at 'The Mountain View Voice,' my hometown newspaper.
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I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.
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Sitting around on the couch eating Pringles all day is not going to help anyone.
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Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible.
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I think if you're a 'tiger parent' early on, you don't need to be a 'helicopter parent' in high school.
