Amy Chua Quotes
I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as a child, they gave me so many choices in my life as an adult. Because of what they did then, I get to do the work I love now.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I am surrounded by great people.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
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That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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A few years ago, when I had no work and started believing that films weren't a viable career, I thought of finding another job. I started training and riding horses and got consumed by that. It was a boon in disguise.
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The CW is a very fashion-oriented network and they like their stars to look a certain way. I like that, but at the same time, I need Nikita to be toned down a bit. You can't draw too much attention to Nikita because she's an assassin.
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My mother's parents died when I was quite young, so I would like to be able to go back and know those people as an adult.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.
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I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.
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Everything has to be perfect in my business. Because when there is a mistake I am the one who is responsible.
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I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.
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Cultivating inner discipline is something that takes time; expecting rapid results is simply a sign of impatience.
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Money is often a matter of chance or good fortune and is not the mark of a successful life. It is not the thing that brings a throb of pleasure or a thrill into my life. And I would not pose as a successful man if that were to be the measure.
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I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as a child, they gave me so many choices in my life as an adult. Because of what they did then, I get to do the work I love now.
