Amy Chua Quotes
I saw my parents come over. They were immigrants, they had no money. My dad wore the same pair of shoes, I had some ugly clothes growing up, and I never had any privileges. In some ways, I think the person that I am now, I think it's good that I had that kind of tough upbringing.
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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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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.
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I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.
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Statistics is the grammar of science.
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I want to win football games.
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It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.
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Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'
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There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined.
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To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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I'm such a blonde. It just doesn't make sense for me to have dark hair.
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Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But that's where an interesting conversation begins.
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I saw my parents come over. They were immigrants, they had no money. My dad wore the same pair of shoes, I had some ugly clothes growing up, and I never had any privileges. In some ways, I think the person that I am now, I think it's good that I had that kind of tough upbringing.
