Amy Chua Quotes

I worry that by losing my temper so much and being so harsh and yelling so much that, by example, I will have taught my daughters to be that way, and I'm now constantly telling them not to do that.

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• May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.

  

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• A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.

  

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• It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.

  

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• Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.

  

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• Anything scarce will ultimately be tokenized because the benefits of digitization and increased liquidity are so great.

  

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• The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

  

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• All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.

  

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• Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.

  

  Larry Holmes
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• I'm very interested in the idea of unusual museums, ones that are not necessarily contemporary art museums - more like historical collections or house museums.

  

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• Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.

  

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• If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.

  

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• More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.

  

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• My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.

  

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• I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.

  

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• I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know.

  

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• I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.

  

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• For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.

  

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• I'm pretty low-key; you'll often find me in jeans, a T-shirt and sweatshirt.

  

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• I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community.

  

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• If you thought about it I'm hardly the villain, I'm hardly the one you should be scared of. It's the guy who can't talk, it's the guy without a job, it's the one with scares in his face, not the one clean cut, you know what I mean you should worry about a lot of other things, but not me.

  

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• Don't worry about a thing, 'Cos every little thing is gonna be alright.

  

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• Do not worry, and worry.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
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• I worry that by losing my temper so much and being so harsh and yelling so much that, by example, I will have taught my daughters to be that way, and I'm now constantly telling them not to do that.

  

  Amy Chua
  • Worry