Amy Chua
Related When I came out to my parents, I knew that they knew. My father was like, 'Are you sure?' I ... BILLY EICHNER My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I wo... HAILE GEBRSELASSIE When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything. MAHESH BABU CHARLES SCHWAB CARLI LLOYD KENDALL JENNER TONY VISCONTI I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and... IAN RANKIN RALPH NADER JOHNNY CASH BRITT EKLAND When I was six years old, my parents told me that we were moving back home to Armenia. I didn't ... HENRIKH MKHITARYAN It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-e... ELLEN MUTH DERRICK ROSE SONAKSHI SINHA My parents went crazy when they found out that I had gotten the part in 'Conversations With My F... DAVID KRUMHOLTZ I knew Henry Fonda was my father, but I didn't know who I was. They all thought of me as Henry F... PETER FONDA JESS GLYNNE My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids won't grow up to be connec... RAM KAPOOR My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his ... FRED ARMISEN I don't want to lose my legs, you know. I don't want to be wheeled around in a wheelchair. I... DAN HILL My parents always swore that in my childhood they had to let me win at board games. If, by the lucky... KOREN ZAILCKAS I've always had the greatest respect for and listened to both my father and my mother. I've ... NEYMAR When the time came for me to go to college, there was only one scholarship that my high school offer... CHANDRA WILSON KENDRA WILKINSON I try to live my life like my father lives his. He always takes care of everyone else first. He won&... BEN ROETHLISBERGER My mum left my dad when I was six months old, so I don't know him at all. I had no male figures ... CATHERINE TATE At the point when I lost my father, it really made me want to be like a father and be like my father... SCOTTIE PIPPEN When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he ... FRANK GEHRY NILE RODGERS GORE VIDAL The Olympics was always my be-all and end-all, so when I won, it was the best feeling in the world. ... JADE JONES I won't stop fighting to give Nevadans access to affordable health care just because my husband ... SHELLEY BERKLEY That's the great thing about New Year's, you get to be a year older. For me, that wasn't... ALAN KING WILBUR SMITH QUEEN LATIFAH There have been times when people who weren't my friends all of a sudden became my friend. I won... LALAINE AMY CHUA FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. XAVIER DOLAN TAMMY FAYE BAKKER MARY J. BLIGE LIZA MINNELLI 'Scarface,' I remember going to see that with my father. We didn't know what to expect; ... LARENZ TATE DAVID CASSIDY I'm from a middle class family, but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really r... BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE We're all in this together. I learned that lesson growing up in West Philly. When I shoveled the... MICHAEL NUTTER TWINKLE KHANNA I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree t... FELICITY KENDAL JENNI RIVERA I do have a stunt double because there are certain things that they won't let me do. Like they w... ALEX O'LOUGHLIN JOYCE MEYER My parents, my family, that's the biggest inspiration in my life. I've been in a lot of dark... J. R. SMITH THOMAS MUSTER DAVID BECKHAM Nobody told me there was any idea for a sequel to 'The Exorcist.' But my agent called me to ... MAX VON SYDOW CLARENCE BUDINGTON KELLAND I can't even give my father a proper gift. Every single Father's Day means so much to me. I&... KYRIE IRVING ROBIN WILLIAMS My father was never around. It was almost as if he didn't exist. I would tell my friends he was ... DANNY AIELLO I wasn't athletic as a kid, and I was self-conscious about my body, but then in eighth grade I w... MATT MCGORRY JACKIE CHAN NAEEM KHAN My mother was a Bible student, and when I was a youngster, both my mother and father would say, '... MONTE IRVIN GEORGINA CHAPMAN B. B. KING BARBRA STREISAND CHUCK D My parents put everything in a trust fund for me. I won't get it until I'm 18, so I'll u... HEATHER O'ROURKE Sure, best seller. I'd love to knock Stephen King off the top of the list. I know I won't, b... TIM O'BRIEN When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jew... LARENZ TATE My father would tell me if I wasn't writing in meter verse, it wasn't poetry. JOHN DARNIELLE RORY MCILROY I didn't feel a strong bond with the parents who raised me, and I had anything but a happy child... LISA LUTZ My friends love to tease me about the fact that I won't be able to drive until I'm a sophomo... NOAH GRAY-CABEY A journalist asked this to my father. He spent a day with me and interviewing my friends/colleagues ... CHRISTOPHER POOLE CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE My father believed a real man didn't read, and my parents hoped I'd get some sense and find ... KEN BRUEN I don't know how to put it, but I don't have many friends. All my friends circle was in Madr... MAHESH BABU TY COBB My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my ... JULIAN FELLOWES PAT CONROY NICK VUJICIC NATE ROBINSON BIL KEANE PEWDIEPIE CARRIE-ANNE MOSS SANDRA TSING LOH SOPHIE KINSELLA I grew up hoping that my father might win a Nobel Prize. BRUCE BEUTLER JENNIFER ANISTON TRACEE ELLIS ROSS ADAM SANDLER BESS MYERSON I saw 'The Empire Strikes Back' the week that it came out. My father was a huge 'Star Wa... DONALD FAISON SALLY RIDE WYNTON MARSALIS CHANDA KOCHHAR BRITTANY SNOW If you are an investor, I hope that you will stay with me for three, four, ten years. But if you ask... BRUNELLO CUCINELLI
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I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said t... 
My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe... 
I never really learned the value of money. My father didn't spoil me, but I think my grandparent... 
I won't ever put myself in a bad position so that people can say bad things about me. I make sma... 
I've never had to fight for a role. Call it my ego or my self-respect, but I won't pick up t... 
I keep my head straight by having the right people around me, from my friends and family to my manag... 
I've only fallen in love once, and once was enough for me, but that doesn't mean my eyes won... 
My childhood was bittersweet in many ways. We moved around a lot. By the time I was 10, I had travel... 
My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courag... 
At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Mau... 
My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around... 
For my senior prom, my father finally said I could go - as long as I was home by 9 P.M.! That was ar... 
When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coa... 
The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but th... 
When you - when someone dies in your family and you think you're over it, and then you wake up i... 
I didn't know how to show my self love, and I didn't want anyone else to hurt me. So my toug... 
I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gav... 
I turned up to all my son's performances and baseball games because my father never did that for... 
My father believed in astrology. His astrologer had predicted that his daughter would become a write... 
Mexican music runs through my veins. I loved it. Growing up, my father didn't allow us to listen... 
It's true my father abused me and didn't love and protect me the way he should have, and at ... 
I think my family needs me more than anybody else, and tennis doesn't need me anymore. I respect... 
In my career, there's many things I've won and many things I've achieved, but for me, my... 
My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. 
I don't have a college degree, and my father didn't have a college degree, so when my son, Z... 
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I came here when I was 20. I came to go to school, but I ended up working for Halston as an assistan... 
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I've been a loner all the time throughout my life... I haven't been the best father... Many ... 
I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my... 
My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My... 
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I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly. 
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I challenged God. I said, 'God, I know that I'm a sinner. I know that I won't probably h... 
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I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I jus... 
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I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves. 
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