Amy Chua Quotes

You know, parenting is so personal. And we're all afraid that we didn't quite get it right. And it feels like the stakes are so high. By we - what if we made a mistake?

Amy Chua

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ParentingMistakeYouKnowPersonal

I have never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

Joanna Lumley

NeverSocialConstraintsFelt

I'm the Inter striker, and in football, if the strikers aren't scoring, then they're not helping.

Mauro Icardi

FootballScoringHelpingThen

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

John Ruskin

PrideDoneNothingWhichEverNobly

Being political is an integral part of being Iranian. Our lives are defined by politics.

Shirin Neshat

PoliticsPoliticalBeingOurPart

I'm from a fancy, well-raised background. We were very well-behaved and not allowed to swear. It's the kind of place where people hide their problems under the rug and pretend it's all perfect. Eventually, you get sick of that.

Tove Lo

PeopleSickProblemsYouHidePlace

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.

Tom Stoppard

MediaLikeSoundsConvention

All the things you can do to prepare for a role that free you, in the moment, are great. You have this muscle memory for things. You don't have to act it as much, once you've done it enough.

Josh Peck

GreatMomentMemoryFreeEnoughYou

I've hit a point where my big luxury is getting to work on the things I want to work on. That's my hobby. It's being able to do a movie like 'Chef,' where you don't get paid, where you get paid scale, but you get to do exactly the movie you want to do. To me, that's worth more to me than whatever money I would have gotten paid.

Jon Favreau

WorkMoneyMeChefHobbyLuxury

I think that sometimes when they see me in a movie they expect me to be something nasty. I mean, I play a lot of villains and you show up and they think maybe... That's why it's good to defy expectations sometimes.

Christopher Walken

GoodMeExpectationsThinkYouPlay

It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.

Philip Sidney

HappinessGreatWhoMostThem

Americans are fed up with how things are going in the country right now. They see more job losses, rising debt and plummeting home sales. They feel let down by a government that passes one 2,000-page, trillion-dollar law after another instead of focusing on addressing the problems Americans worry about every day.

Phil Gingrey

HomeDayJobGovernmentLawWorry

I love to watch television in Babylon, especially the news because it's so full of corruption. I-man know there is so much corruption, there is bound to be an eruption!

Peter Tosh

LoveCorruptionTelevisionNewsKnow

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