Amy Chua Quotes

I say 'I love you' to my daughters every day.

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• I'd never been published when I was young.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Never
  • Young
  • Published

• Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Gold
  • Most
  • Even

• I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Done
  • Wish
  • Doing

• I like things going on in my life. I don't want to be on a beach somewhere just relaxing.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Beach

• When liberty returns, I will return.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Liberty
  • Will
  • Return

• Startups on the inside are always badly broken.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Always
  • Broken
  • Inside

• 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.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Music
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Life
  • Good
  • Science

• Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Great
  • Small
  • Wisdom

• My dad's a firefighter, so I know what it's like for policemen and firefighters to be on their own on Christmas Day.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Know
  • Dad
  • Day

• When a government for the people becomes a government in spite of the people, then who are we really serving?

  

  Jackie Speier
  • People
  • Government
  • Serving

• 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.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Kids
  • Community
  • Risk

• 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.

  

  Sally Mann
  • People
  • Life
  • Pretty

• 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.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Live
  • American
  • Identity

• 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.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Children
  • Art
  • Parents

• I love basketball players for what they do for their size - so graceful.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Love
  • Basketball
  • Size

• 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)

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Women
  • September

• I eat lots of fresh fruits and vegetables.

  

  Colbie Caillat

• He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.

  

  Benedict of Nursia
  • God
  • Labors
  • Prays

• The answers to all a startup's challenges are out there. By setting up the right mechanisms for gathering feedback, the road to success can be a less bumpy ride.

  

  Jay Samit
  • Up
  • Success
  • Road

• Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And look, you see how handsome and powerful I am? The son of a great man, the mother who gave me life-- A deathless goddess. But even for me, I tell you, Death and the strong force of fate are waiting. There will come a dawn or sunset or high noon When a man will take my life in battle too-- flinging a spear perhaps Or whipping a deadly arrow off his bow.

  

  Homer
  • Mother
  • Death
  • Strong

• I'm motivated by solving new and challenging problems, especially ones that people say can't or shouldn't be tackled.

  

  Ryan Holmes
  • Problem
  • Challenges
  • Motivated

• I say 'I love you' to my daughters every day.

  

  Amy Chua