Amy Chua Quotes
Some people are just self-motivated - my husband was. I also believe there are many children for whom parental involvement is key.
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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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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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.
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I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.
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You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski -
By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
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I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
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I took pride in everything when it came to Canada. Not even just Toronto, everything that came with Canada, wearing that Toronto Raptors jersey.
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If you back out of a convention... you can't dodge your obligation. Torture is still not acceptable.
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If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.
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Conversations create change. It's easy to call someone 'enemy,' but there's more to it, right?
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I don't believe the government should determine what a woman does in this area any more than it should tell a chief executive how to run a company. Personal and family matters, relationships between doctors and patients should not be within the purview of government.
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Some people are just self-motivated - my husband was. I also believe there are many children for whom parental involvement is key.
