Maya Lin Quotes

For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.

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• I don't drink at lunchtime because I'm very weak at alcohol like most Asians.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Drink
  • Alcohol
  • Weak

• Nothing endures but personal qualities.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Nothing
  • Personal
  • Brainy

• When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Remember
  • Queen

• The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Bad
  • Problem
  • Sad

• Even though I've won numerous titles and an Olympic gold medal, there are still so many faults in my performance that I can honestly hardly bear to watch the videos back.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Gold
  • Performance
  • Bear

• Any time you make more than a couple of friends at an event, I think that you actually made no friends.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Think

• Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness, and yet so many Americans are left to fight this battle without the coverage, support, and resources they need.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Support
  • Fight
  • Eating

• No matter what went down, music was always going to be a part of my life. What ultimately happened is that, over a period of time, I just kind of looked around and when like, 'Wow! I'm actually making a living doing this.'

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Experience
  • Because
  • Focused

• There's discussion in athletics about how sport - where they say 'SportsCenter' has ruined the fundamentals of basketball because it's - it only applauds dunks and three point shots and blocks, and I think, you know, the cable news has done the same thing for politics.

  

  Dan Pfeiffer
  • Done
  • Politics
  • Same

• Having a chance to be someone other than yourself and to act out stuff that makes people look at you, like, wow, and that's why I love acting so much.

  

  Quinton Aaron
  • People
  • Like
  • Chance

• How does one leave Social Security and Medicare untouched, grow defense by more than $50 billion, slash taxes, launch a $1 trillion infrastructure program - and not explode the deficit and national debt?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Security
  • Grow
  • Debt

• When you start talking about the patients' bill of rights and all the benefits that are in there, people agree with all that. What they don't know is how are you going to pay for it.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • People
  • Know
  • Start

• We want our music to reach everybody, so we're using the Internet. Every kid today is online, and we want to make sure our songs reach every one of them.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Music
  • Today
  • Internet

• I admire a lot of people, but in terms of sport I've always loved the mentality of Tiger Woods on a golf course. I always love his eyes when he's setting himself and focusing on his decision; he has a really strong, focused face and believes that he can make the shot.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • People
  • Love
  • Decision

• I admire Cate Blanchett as an actor: that's my ultimate goal. To be as good as she is!

  

  Indiana Evans
  • Good
  • She
  • Goal

• Having a clone would make it so much easier - it would be great to send a clone to a TV station when I have to get up at 4am.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Up
  • Great
  • Clone

• Three or four years ago a distinguished Frenchman, M. Hovelacque, published an article on America in the Revue de Paris in which he maintained that the essential weakness of our American civilization lay in the failure of our education to produce any equivalent of the superior man of Confucius or the καλὸς κἀγαθός of the Greeks.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • American
  • America
  • Education

• I'm serenely convinced that we are heading into what will amount to a 'time out' from technological progress as we know it.

  

  James Howard Kunstler
  • Time
  • Progress

• In a sense, Open City is a kind of Wunderkammer, one of those little rooms assembled with bric-a-brac by Renaissance scholars. I don't mean it as a term of praise: these cabinets of curiousities contained specific sorts of objects - maps, skulls (as memento mori), works of art, stuffed animals, natural history samples, and books - and Open City actually contains many of the same sort of objects. So, I don't think it's as simple as literary inclusiveness.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Art
  • Book
  • Kind

• Human beings are the only species that deliberately deprive themselves of sleep for no apparent gain. Many people walk through their lives in an underslept state, not realizing it.

  

  Matthew Walker
  • People
  • Sleep

• Artie said it would be nice if we got married. I said it would be nice, too. The next thing I knew, we were on our way to Las Vegas.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Nice
  • Said
  • Vegas

• The devils more orthodox than some theologians I know.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Knows
  • Devil
  • Orthodox

• For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.

  

  Maya Lin