Maya Lin Quotes
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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I like pencil skirts because they hug me in all the right places.
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I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
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You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
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We don't have to look back at da Vinci's work and Albert Einstein's work and Mozart's work. We're actually living in the time period that David Lynch is creating his art. We're so lucky.
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Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.
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'Sicario' was successful, but it was successful because Denis and the producers were, you know, they were very lean. It was very lean filmmaking.
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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I've been in a New York City-based cabaret for the past seven years called The Citizens Band. It's possibly one of the most brilliant things I've ever been involved with.
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I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try to imagine patterns or codes to make sense of the unknowns that keep us up at night. I'm also interested in the invisible space between people in communication; the space guided by translation and misinterpretation.
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I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.
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We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.
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I am somebody who is constantly hungry to nibble on something.
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Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child, and began art classes at the age 7. But if China hadn't been under Maoist rule, I might never have become a writer.
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If man was the relative of animals, then animals were the relatives of man, and in degrees bearers of that inwardness of which man, the most advanced of their kin, is conscious in himself.
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Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it.
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I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.
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Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.
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The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.
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I think probably I'm quite sentimental; I like big emotional stories, I like being moved by things, but I think I'm very embarrassed by sentiment. I'm very embarrassed by corniness.
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Every memorial in its time has a different goal.
