Maya Lin Quotes
I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.
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What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.
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It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.
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How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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The feeling of insecurity is inimical to our sense of wellbeing, as it causes anxiety and stress, which harms our physical and mental health. It is no surprise then that, according to some surveys, workers across the world value job security more highly than wages.
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I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.
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When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.
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I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City.
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You never know what the future brings.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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I like the language in Proust but not the context.
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Over the years, from serving in the CIA to sitting on non-profit boards, I have observed first-hand what the addition of even one woman to a meeting or to a decision-making body can do. Put simply, in very many instances, group dynamics improve markedly.
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It's hard not to love everything Prada does.
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Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.
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If I said it once, I'll say it again: 'We have the power to change everything.'
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Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.
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Nature is bottom up. It's compelling and complex, and it fills me with joy and it's inconsistent with the top down view.
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In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.
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Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.
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Just as we are enhancing the customer side of our marketplace, we are also looking for ways to increase our contributor expense.
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I fail frequently - I just try to keep it quiet.
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I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.
