Maya Lin Quotes
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I feel like I want to and have to do everything once.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
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You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they were all very good company.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress of the human race in the science of government, in the arts of civilization and refinement, and in the establishment of morality and religion, has been constantly and steadily towards improvement and perfection.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
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I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.
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In 1998, I set up and directed a research group at the Nanotechnology Institute newly created in the Research Center of Karlsruhe. This allowed to offer to former post-doctoral coworkers the opportunity to develop and to progressively set up independent research activities in nanoscience and nanotechnology.
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You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way.
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It's funny: All my friends back home are always wondering why every television show I'm on is a drama, but all the comedy pilots I did died a slow and painful death.
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If you're wearing a pair of shoes that's a little flashy, then it's important not to be flashy up top and vice versa.
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It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.
