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.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• 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.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Age
  • Famous
  • Golden

• I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Experience
  • American
  • Black

• 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.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Good
  • Hand
  • Try

• 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.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • School
  • High
  • Small

• I'd love to do all types of film, not just comedy, although I love comedy.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Comedy
  • Film
  • Types

• 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.

  

  Eduard Hanslick
  • True
  • Beautiful
  • Imagination

• I have never had personal debt and never will.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Never
  • Personal
  • Debt

• Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Women
  • Career
  • Proud

• Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Violence
  • See
  • Skin

• 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.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Fun
  • Crazy
  • Actress

• 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.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Work
  • Education
  • Food

• I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Important
  • Ideas
  • Security

• 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.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• 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.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • People
  • Country
  • Care

• I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Movies
  • Scary
  • Thrill

• I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Records
  • Hits
  • Legendary

• Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Writing
  • Art

• It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.

  

  Philip Sidney
  • Great

• In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing.

  

  Bjorn Lomborg
  • World
  • Important
  • Air

• Really, feminism is just about equality, and that's all. It's just saying equal rights.

  

  Abi Morgan
  • Equality

• I want to see a connected and progressive future for Australia, where we harness our greatest natural resources: sun, wind, and brain power.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Future
  • Want
  • Resources

• 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.

  

  Amy Chua
  • Children
  • Future