Amy Chua Quotes
Instilling a sense of self-discipline and focus when the kids are younger makes it so much easier by the time they get into high school.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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I do get approached occasionally, but not a ton. I'm unrecognizable because I'm coated in cat hair and sweat. And there's a sort of yeti quality to my presence... so I don't think that people can see the face.
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I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
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When I was a kid, they used to say, 'Oh man, you don't ever wanna leave New York.' I don't ever want to stay in New York!
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I love working in Canada. The ovation is great. It makes me feel like I'm the top dog.
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I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.
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True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.
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Most people hoard their money - just keep it in the bank. Bitcoin will really take off when people start spending it, creating a velocity of money.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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Autumnal -- nothing to do with leaves. It is to do with a certain brownness at the edges of the day ... Brown is creeping up on us, take my word for it ... Russets and tangerine shades of old gold flushing the very outside edge of the senses... deep shining ochres, burnt umber and parchments of baked earth -- reflecting on itself and through itself, filtering the light. At such times, perhaps, coincidentally, the leaves might fall, somewhere, by repute. Yesterday was blue, like smoke.
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Then again you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.'
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I was always quite outspoken as a teenager and quite cheeky in school and stuff.
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Don't get me wrong - I don't want to be mean to the scammers. There are lots of people online who do that. I'm content merely having fun inventing, and I figure any time they're spending with me is time in which they're not scamming vulnerable adults out of their savings.
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Let it be forgotten, as a flower is forgotten, Forgotten as a fire that once was singing gold, Let it be forgotten forever and ever, Time is a kind friend, he will make us old.
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Instilling a sense of self-discipline and focus when the kids are younger makes it so much easier by the time they get into high school.
