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Amy Chua Quotes

There's something suspicious about saying, 'I'm just going to leave my child alone and let her pursue her passions.' You know what? I think most 13-year-olds' passion is sitting in front of the TV, or doing Facebook, or surfing the Internet for hours.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: educator
Nationality: american
Birth: October 26, 1962

Topics

Passion Alone Child Saying Think

It's nice to finally get scripts offered to me that aren't the ones Tom Hanks wipes his butt with.

Me Nice Butt Get Finally His

I think we're all mysteries to ourselves.

Think I Think Ourselves Mysteries

As a young concert-going person, I was never enamoured with celebrities who would walk out to feature in certain songs and then walk off.

Walk Person Young Never Out Off

The question really is, are you improving the world? And you can do that in many models. You can do that in government, you can do that in a nonprofit, and you can do it in commercial enterprise.

Government You Can Do It World You

Our societies have experienced the magic that occurs when pluralism flourishes and the marginalized assume their proper powers. But loss stalks those victories, as millions revolt against change and supremacies resurface.

Anand Giridharadas

Change Loss Magic Against Victories

I caught on fire twice on the stage, but I was promptly put out. It was just my leg.

Fire Stage Out Twice Leg Just

If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.

You Company Nuts Policy Stay Your

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

Michel de Montaigne

Woman Her Cannot Boast Chastity

I'm demanding and critical about myself. It's something my parents passed on to me.

Myself Parents Me Something Critical

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

Good Best Enough Nothing Worst Try

I'd love to find a lifelong female film editor as Scorsese has with Thelma Schoonmaker. I think women are probably, without generalising, sensitive to subtle things as an editor.

Love Women Think Find Without Film

My whole family is lactose intolerant and when we take pictures we can't say cheese.

Family Cheese Pictures Say Take

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