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Amy Chua Quotes

I think there are many ways to raise great kids. From what I can tell, Ayelet Waldman's kids are interesting, strong, and happy, and if that's the case, that's good parenting.

Amy Chua

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Good Great Parenting Happy Think

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

Jim Morrison

Poetry People Feel Achieve See Ways

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can 'be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough' are not true. They are fairy tales.

Jocko Willink

Strength Talent People World Enough

I used to take pride if my kids were playing basketball, and I'd be there, and I wouldn't say anything. People were obviously expecting me to yell and scream at the ref and at them and everything. I wouldn't say anything.

John McEnroe

People Me Basketball Pride Say Take

I'm the most unlikely person when it comes to fashion. I don't really have much sense of it.

Travis Fimmel

Fashion Person Sense Most Much

If you pay a child a dollar to read a book, as some schools have tried, you not only create an expectation that reading makes you money, you also run the risk of depriving the child for ever of the value of it. Markets are not innocent.

Michael Sandel

Money Value Child Book Reading You

I'm trying to make the case to voters across the political spectrum that someone who brings a younger perspective - a fresher perspective... can change the culture in Washington more effectively than someone who has run for office 9 or 10 times.

Jon Ossoff

Change Culture Perspective Political

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. My sister became unmarried and pregnant during high school, and she kept saying, 'This wasn't supposed to happen! Why is this happening to me?' Someone should have given her another book to read.

Dorothy Allison

School Me Sister Growing Up Saying

Because you give birth, because you impregnate someone, that does not automatically give you that title of mother or father. You earn the title.

Debbie Rowe

Father Mother Someone You Birth

I'm continually working on myself. Nothing ever actually works.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

Myself Nothing Working Ever Actually

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.

William Trevor

Imagination Thinking Understanding

When you want to transcribe an idea truthfully from the page to the screen, it is not necessarily best to be particularly literal about it. It can be hard to convince people, specifically writers, of that.

Alison Owen

Best People You Page Want Hard

Pesticides came about after the first world war. Some brainy petrochemical money maker said, 'Hey, that mustard gas worked great on people, maybe we could dilute it down and spray it on our crops to deal with pests.'

Woody Harrelson

Great Money War People World Brainy