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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If anyone thinks we have become tired, let me say that we are a struggling nation, a fighting nation, a patient nation.
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I wasn't, like, this top model; I was quietly doing my work, and when I became an actress, people started doing research, and everybody found out. People dug out photos, and suddenly people became interested - but no one was interested in my photos when I was a model.
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I think you're lucky if you discover what you really love at a young age. College wasn't something I was going to do. I wanted to keep acting, and I didn't want to go to New York or California and pound the pavement.
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Well, kids are never much on history. Nor for that matter was anybody else. It had been MacAllister’s experience that most people think anything that happened before they were born didn’t count for a whole lot.
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I'm no good at down-time. I panic slightly and then plan a project or set up a meeting about starting a project.
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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.
