Maya Lin Quotes
To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
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If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.
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When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
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You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections.
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I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'
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When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
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Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.
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I'm not good at accepting help.
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Han Solo would never wear the earring Harrison Ford wears.
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This is the assembly of life that took a billion years to evolve. It has eaten the storms - folded them into its genes - and created the world that created us. It holds the world steady.
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
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Reliable data on the outsourcing of American jobs is sorely missing from the debate on globalization.
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You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?
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To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.
