Amy Chua Quotes
Don't assume your child is weak. If you, the parent, assume that they can't take anymore, what kind of signal are you sending them?
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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If I'd had the chance, I'd like to have completed my degree before going full-time, and sports journalism was something that always interested me. Dad used to buy a paper, and I always turned straight to the sports pages.
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People trash talk me.
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Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
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He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.
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Sense About Science is much more than an innocent fact-checking service. It is a spin-off of a bizarre political network that began life as the ultra-left Revolutionary Communist Party and switched over to extreme corporate libertarianism when it launched 'Living Marxism' magazine in the late eighties.
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I love love stories, no matter how dark.
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I haven't had an orthodox career.
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It's hard work to ensure that all schools are safe and welcoming places for all children. It means changing policies, practices and cultures; providing school support personnel; and funding programs like restorative justice - not simply resorting to excessive and often discriminatory discipline.
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There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.
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The U.N. might not be the most luxurious place to work, but it certainly is one of the most important places in the world.
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I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering about who you are. I'm never quite sure and I'd hate to feel sort of content and get a good sense of who I am because if I know one thing, that's not me. I don't mind not necessarily being happy about it. And that's fine.
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Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
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I would say old school cats like Redman and Wu-tang. My style is my style, those are just cats that I liked.
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When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.
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I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.
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My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a concentration camp.
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I like 'Futurama.' That's kind of the only thing that's my sci-fi thing, although I was big into zombies for a time.
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The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had.
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I don't like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I know.
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America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.
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If somebody would've told me that I was going to lose my legs at the age of 19, I would've thought there's absolutely no way I'd be able to handle that. But then it happened, and I realized that there's so much more to live for, that my life isn't about my legs.
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When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe.
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Don't assume your child is weak. If you, the parent, assume that they can't take anymore, what kind of signal are you sending them?
