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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There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
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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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Do not write if there is no tremendous urge to do so. At the heart, there must be an inspiration or muse or one of those old-fashioned things. Else, why bore yourself, destroy other people's interest and kill trees?
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There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
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Every conversation we have as a band is about gender in some way, and it's been like that from the beginning.
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I think you have to be careful. You have to know exactly what is going to resonate with voters. And you can't get ahead of that. You have to be very careful with your approach.
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And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.
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I've never wanted to be famous. That has never been a part of any dream. I do remember being little and thinking I might want to be a singer. But not a famous singer - just, like, a singer.
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I've seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that.
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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.
