Amy Chua Quotes
A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.
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At Al Jazeera, we are getting our local Somalis, Yemenis and Sudanese, local correspondents from within the society, who understand much better than the people who come from overseas. We will get a much better insight.
Wadah Khanfar
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
Damien Hirst
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
Natalie Massenet
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All my books are optimistic!
Malcolm Gladwell
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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.
Harold Washington
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I've been on the campaign trail so long, some of my wine has turned to vinegar.
Pat Paulsen
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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.
Ian MacKaye
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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.
Yehuda Berg
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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!
Patricia Clarkson
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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.
Imogen Cunningham
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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.
Karel Reisz
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
Karen Kain
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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 -
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.
Barry Levinson
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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.
Barney Frank
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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.
Bebe Moore Campbell
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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.
Val McDermid
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The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
Pablo Picasso
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I don't want to pretend I'm any cooler or smarter than I am.
M. Night Shyamalan
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For the longest time, Indian women have been okay with being curvy. But I think the modern Indian woman needs to get toned. I don't endorse being thin. Anorexia and bulimia are a reality in India because everybody wants to be thin.
Bipasha Basu
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When I retired from professional chess in 2005 to join the Russian pro-democracy movement against Putin, I was frequently asked how my chess experience might help me in politics. My answer was that it wouldn’t help much at all, because in chess we had fixed rules and uncertain results, while in Russian politics it was exactly the opposite.
Garry Kasparov -
I am through with baseball forever. I have my farm and my home and enough to take care of me, so why should I work and worry any longer?
Eddie Plank
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Angel away yeah strange in a way Maybe that is why I chase strangers away
Nicki Minaj
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A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.
Amy Chua