Amy Chua Quotes
We all want to do the right thing for our children. We all don't know what that is and we all - you know, you won't know until the future.
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I know that there are going to be people that don't like my music, but I think in the industry itself it is always that, 'Oh. you're from the 'X Factor.' There have been certain radio stations that will not play your song because you are from the 'X Factor,' yet they'll play another song from an artist from another TV show.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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I'd love to do all types of film, not just comedy, although I love comedy.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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I have never had personal debt and never will.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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I would like to do something that pushes me as an actress to make me better. I would love to do something dramatic or crazy. I think that would be so much fun.
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My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
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Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
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I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.
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I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.
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Interview with WAAF Radio (August 23, 2010).
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.
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If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.
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We all want to do the right thing for our children. We all don't know what that is and we all - you know, you won't know until the future.
