"I majored in Chinese. I was never really……" — Martha Beck
"I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life."
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102 Quotes by Martha Beck
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Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which…
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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.
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Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind…
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Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.
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Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is…
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If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things.…
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To live a life that is wrong for you is a form of dying. There are people who have lives…
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Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.
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As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in…
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The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
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Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.
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Every day brings new choices.
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More Asian Quotes
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We do see Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi and Chow Yun Fat, but it's very rare to see the Chinese male…
— Nicolas Cage
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I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.
— Jackie Chan
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I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.
— Jackie Chan
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They probably do have an Asian Barbie.
— Iris Chang
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All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.
— Joan Chen
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For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a…
— Joan Chen
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To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of…
— Amy Chua
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When I was little, my parents really only wanted me to be a scientist or a doctor; they had never…
— Amy Chua
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Westerners often laud their children as 'talented' or 'gifted', while Asian parents highlight the importance of hard work. And in…
— Amy Chua
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I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.
— Ted Allen
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In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition…
— Douglas MacArthur
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Shout out to asian girls, let the lights dim some(dim sum).
— Drake
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