Amy Chua Quotes
To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.
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If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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We'll always be fascinated by people who live above the law.
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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
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But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.
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This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.
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There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
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I had to understand the whole bounty hunting thing, because we don't have that in Venezuela. Nothing similar at all, at least not legal.
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Women are standing up and leaning forward and asserting their power.
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In my family, education was something you endured. My parents weren't educated past high school, and the only book in our house was a 'Reader's Digest' condensed book. Can you imagine?
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I truly did feel that I owed it to my parents, my grandparents, to do whatever it was that I wanted, because if I wasn't happy, if I wasn't being true to myself, then I wasn't living fully. They had given up so much so that I could live at the level that so many people are just automatically born into.
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Bonnie and Clyde grew up in absolute poverty. They didn't go to school or have any money; the only way they could figure out how to get ahead was to steal. The banks were foreclosing on everyone's homes. I think a lot of people will be able to relate to that struggle.
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To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting.
