Maya Lin Quotes
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I don't drink at lunchtime because I'm very weak at alcohol like most Asians.
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
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When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.
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The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.
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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.
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Any time you make more than a couple of friends at an event, I think that you actually made no friends.
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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.
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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.'
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I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I admire Cate Blanchett as an actor: that's my ultimate goal. To be as good as she is!
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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.
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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.
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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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I did my dissertation on Kafka.
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If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.
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Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.
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Conventions are often more cruel than the law.
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For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.
