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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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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Ed Balls
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I'm really into old school music when hip-hop first came out with Common, A Tribe Called Quest, Queen Latifah, MC Lyte, and Run DMC. I'm really into that! Hip-hop these days isn't the same and doesn't have the same sound anymore. I'd rather listen to the old school hip-hop.
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Who was wrong? Who was right?It didn't matter in the thick of the fight...
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Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates.
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As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
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I'm not sure there's another way to help move more people out of poverty than to raise the minimum wage.
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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?
