Amy Chua Quotes
My children grew up with one Western parent. My husband doesn't believe in raising his voice with the kids and we don't spank. They were really raised in a half-Asian family.
Quotes to Explore
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.
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It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes.
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I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.
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There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
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I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.
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Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.
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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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My own conviction is, confirmed by a very close study of parochial registers, that some of the very best blood in England is to be found among the tradesmen of our county towns.
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Twitter means all my friends are in my computer. All my ideas are in my computer. I can do whatever I want in there; I'm kind of... bionic.
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If I could visit dead authors, I'd head right over to E. B. White, though I'm so in awe of him I'd probably just sit at his feet and weep. He's the master of clarity, of understated humor, of palatable political conviction.
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The only thing you have then to believe in is your craft.
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A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.
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If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.
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When I was pregnant, a few of my friends told me that their babies slept in bed with them. I remember thinking how crazy that was. Then I started reading up on it and decided it was something I actually wanted to try.
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My children grew up with one Western parent. My husband doesn't believe in raising his voice with the kids and we don't spank. They were really raised in a half-Asian family.
