Until the age of five, my parents spoke to me in Chinese or a combination of Chinese and English, but they didn’t force me to speak Mandarin. In retrospect, this was sad, because they believed that my chance of doing well in America hinged on my fluency in English. Later, as an adult, I wanted to learn Chinese. Amy Tan Read Quote
It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose. Franklin D. Roosevelt Read Quote
If the food of friendship is time together, how do we make the time to ensure we’re all fed? My friends and I have recently come across a way to keep each other close. It fits into our lifestyles despite busy schedules and a surfeit of children. We call it the ‘kibbutz.’ Nir Eyal Read Quote
I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it’s so incestuous that it’s starting to kill itself. Branford Marsalis Read Quote
I suffer from imposter syndrome all the time. Even if I’m just at a party, I’m thinking people are going to find out that I’m really boring. Shura Read Quote
I wouldn’t say I really admired anyone. When I was a kid, there were definitely a lot of tough guys, but they weren’t really cool. If anything, that was an influence on me: to take that toughness and combine it with the cool style, the cool entrance, the cool gear – and driving to work in a Ferrari. Kazuchika Okada Read Quote
We have huge holes in our education in the West. I think that we have little knowledge of Asian history. If you ask a well-educated, modern Western person about World War II, most will think that the theatre of war was only in Europe. But it’s known that the Pacific War was going on concurrently, and we don’t know anything about it. Min Jin Lee Read Quote
