Maya Lin Quotes
Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.
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I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
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One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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You didn't hear anything about 'Celtic Pride' when they had Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe and they were only winning 32 games a year.
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I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.
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My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.
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But there have been many news reports that water-boarding has been used on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is one of the major al Qaeda figures that we have in U.S. custody.
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Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.
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Bad guys are complicated characters. It's always fun to play them. You get away with a lot more. You don't have a heroic code you have to live by.
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You always have to think in a new modern way, and you always have to push yourself in fashion because it's a big treadmill. You can't really get off it. You just have to move a little faster.
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Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.
