Amy Chua Quotes
Both of my girls have very high self-esteem because they were both able to master certain things; I should think that's good for their confidence.
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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I think the paradigm is shifting with regard to women and what we bring to the industry. I feel very blessed.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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I love ice cream, and I love chocolate.
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There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.
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So the storm passed and every one was happy.
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If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
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Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.
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I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.
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There was a time where I thought I could only date vegans. I was wrong because I was missing the fact that somebody should be right for me first, instead of just having similar values.
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I don't know that Islam has ever been a subject of anything that I've written. I think Muslims have often been, but those are two very different things.
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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
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My brother was going to go to England to wrestle, but then we found out they were opening a wrestling school in Bray, County Wicklow. I thought, 'I'll go along and try that.'
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You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.
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A lot of my work is about equalizing things and kind of destroying any barrier between what's high and low, or what's deep or what's shallow, complex or simple. I hope I'm ever-changing.
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Both of my girls have very high self-esteem because they were both able to master certain things; I should think that's good for their confidence.
