Maya Lin Quotes
How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.
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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
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I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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Grown-up clothes are more appealing because customers need to be able to project themselves into them.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.
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The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
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Healthcare is a very complicated business and you need a very different business model to be successful in India; yet at a global level, there are a lot of challenges and opportunities.
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This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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With these big superhero movies, everybody is so tight-lipped about everything, there's a certain amount of just going on faith.
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Not as many people watch 'Doctor Who' as watch the Super Bowl, obviously, but the tropes that attract nerds are no longer a secret cult. It's a much larger culture, in the specific sense.
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
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'Catch-22' was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn't wildly enthusiastic about.
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A deep sense of sin, a humble willingness to be saved in God's way, a teachable readiness to give up our own prejudices when a more excellent way is shown, these are the principal things. These things the two disciples possessed, and therefore our Lord "went with them" and guided them into all truth.
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How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.
