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 you can't answer the question 'What is VR adding to that experience?' - and it should be more than just a gee-whiz thing - then that project shouldn't be in VR. You're not taking full advantage of your medium.
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Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.
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The first thing Fontana did was get me to change my hair colour from light brown to red, and the songwriter Mitch Murray suggested I change my name from Pauline Matthews to Kiki Dee.
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War has become the environment of our time if only because it is an accelerated form of innovation and education. (p. 381)
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In both the Holy Land of the New Testament and the promised land of the Book of Mormon, [our Savior] spent considerable time teaching and instructing and training His councils and council leaders, and then He sent them forth to share what they had learned with others.
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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.
