Amy Chua Quotes
A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.
Amy Chua
Quotes to Explore
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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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If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia.
Jack White
The White Stripes
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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
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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.
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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The health of the planet is at stake, because the cruelty and the waste that accompanies the slaughter of billions of animals each year literally infects us all. We could consume healthy plant-based food produced at almost infinitely less cost. What does that say, really, about us and what we're doing... to animals and to ourselves?
James Cromwell
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Most of the time I play heroes, guys who don't have an edge.
Joe Penny
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As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better father.
Alan King
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If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. That's why I play. If I made it in New York, you can make it anywhere.
Jason Pierre-Paul
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A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.
Amy Chua
