Amy Chua Quotes
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
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I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.
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I like things going on in my life. I don't want to be on a beach somewhere just relaxing.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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The best pop music is the songs that a group of people can dance to, but you can also listen to in your bed and cry. That's something obviously that The Beatles started and... so having that darkness there opens another door.
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I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't.
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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My dad's a firefighter, so I know what it's like for policemen and firefighters to be on their own on Christmas Day.
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When a government for the people becomes a government in spite of the people, then who are we really serving?
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Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce.
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I don't like memoirs. I think they're self-serving, and people use them to settle scores, and I really tried not to do that. You have to have a really interesting life to justify memoir, and my life has been pretty ho-hum.
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I choose to be American, I choose to live in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, I choose to have Puerto Rican/Jewish neighbors, and I choose to maintain my Chinese identity.
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Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
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I love basketball players for what they do for their size - so graceful.
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If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, let it be that human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights once and for all. (September 5, 1995)
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Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.
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He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses.
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My music is - I don't want to say my main focus, but it's what comes most naturally to me.
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I have a rule: before I can throw anything out, I have to write down five possible uses for it. This stretches my mind and keeps it nimble - just like stretching exercises do for my body.
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The White House is the finest prison in the world.
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I say 'I love you' to my daughters every day.
