Amy Chua Quotes
Questioning authority is, I think, a great thing to instill in children. I just didn't have enough of that when I was little.

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You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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I get inspired in certain places. You have to write in places like Amsterdam or Paris or New Zealand, when you're standing on a yacht, looking out at the middle of the ocean.
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I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.
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I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
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No hero is mortal till he dies.
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I'd say it's okay to be political and to be a writer. Those streams can be separate, and they can be connected; for me, they're both. Life is political, and I'm interested in my community and in a lot of issues - some of them American, some global.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.
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It is often suggested that the A.N.C. is controlled by the Communist Party, by Communists. Well, I have been long enough in the A.N.C. to know that that has never been true.
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You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
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There is a lot of stuff I like. I love backpacking. I love going to an island where I can just sit on the beach and read or scuba dive and sail. I do a lot of that. I still go backpacking around Europe in the summers and staying in hostels. I love that.
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God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.
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There's no religion but sex and music.
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Sublime wonders lie in store,I am shown a regal residence;a mighty kingdom, an empirewith more grandeur than before.
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I've always been a fan of the '80s and, particularly, hair metal.
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Questioning authority is, I think, a great thing to instill in children. I just didn't have enough of that when I was little.