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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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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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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Arma tenentiomnia dat, qui justa negat.
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‘Aren’t people funny? I don’t find where one sits at dinner fascinating at all,’ lied the Princess.
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Every photo, every 'ONCE' in time is also the beginning of a story starting 'once upon a time...' Every photo is the first frame of a movie.
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How can the human race be, like, the only living form in the universe? There have to be other life forms out there. I believe it.
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Procrastination is a deadly weapon of human progress.
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I feel like it's not Africans who are afraid of China's rise in Africa. It's the West that's afraid of China's rise in Africa.
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I consider myself lucky to have had wonderful teachers. They expose you to a lot and basically teach you how to paint. I think of my career as a series of lucky incidents.
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I say 'I love you' to my daughters every day.
