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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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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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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It takes a little bit more mentally to figure out what I need to do to be most effective. The game is ever evolving. So you have to constantly pay attention to the change because you don't want to be left behind.
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I know about the sweet home. I went to school with 'em boys, what became Lynyrd Skynyrd; I knew Allen Collins, the skinny girl-beautiful guitarist. I put Allen Collins in every travel piece I do. Travel writing is harrowing, going to Bermuda with a banjo on my knee.
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Brand names aren't important to me at all.
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I thought I'd love to be a gardener because I grew up with a vegetable garden and I love being close to the Earth and growing things. At my home in L.A., I have a great garden and I grow all kinds of things. I even have a worm farm! The worms help create organic compost out of kitchen scraps.
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Modest successes are better known as failures.
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However, leaving everything to the market is not necessarily good for society.
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Africa's risks are mainly perceived and not real. Unfortunately for us in Africa we are not really very good at telling our own story. But things are changing and people are beginning to understand that things are going very, very well.
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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.
