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.Amy Chua
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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.
Jackie Robinson -
We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.
Edgardo Osorio -
If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
Daniel Ellsberg -
The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
Wayne Rogers -
We'll always be fascinated by people who live above the law.
Wagner Moura -
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.
L. Sprague de Camp
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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.
Fisher Stevens -
This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.
Taylor Dayne -
Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
Yannick Noah -
Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
F. H. Bradley -
I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
Yoko Ono
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There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
Aaron Johnson -
I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.
R. L. Stine -
There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
H. L. Mencken -
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.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
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?
Vikram Seth -
There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
Jack Kemp
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In Spanish, I record a lot of single-voice tracks, and in English, I 'stack' a lot of voices, so it's very different, and I think I got so used to recording in Spanish for six years that it was really refreshing and challenging to get in and record 'Double Vision' in English.
Prince Royce -
I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.
Dan Marino -
I just went to your typical public schools, and my dad would take us to the movies every week, or he'd buy scalped tickets to San Antonio Spurs games. I remember I was four or five years old and my parents, who were very young, took us to see The Police in Austin, and Iggy Pop opened.
Pedro Pascal -
I think one of the things about parents and children is there are the accidents of temperament. There's no guarantee that just because you are related you'll have anything in common.
Aline Brosh McKenna -
In Hawaii, there are 50-year-old grandfathers, because they got married so early.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa -
To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting.
Amy Chua