Amy Chua Quotes
A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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All my books are optimistic!
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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I've been on the campaign trail so long, some of my wine has turned to vinegar.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about anything. Shut up and sit in the corner. I mean, seriously!
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov
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The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
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I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.
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African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
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A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.
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With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?
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I'm a visual thinker, thrill seeker, and I'm easily distracted. I see everything I'm writing, and I think it naturally affects the pace of things.
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When a producer like Prasad, who knows people's pulse, is ready to try something new, why not me?
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God surrounded me with the right team, with the team that I needed to help me exercise all of my ideas. You need that. You need that army, you need that force.
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'Moby-Dick' really threw me. I read it when I was 14 and my best friends were books. It changed the way I looked at the world.
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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Remove the fear, and the answer comes into focus.
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A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.
