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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'
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I like to think of myself as a romantic person!
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We are 100 percent responsible for the pursuit of holiness, but at the same time we are 100 percent dependent upon the Holy Spirit to enable us in that pursuit. The pursuit of holiness is not a pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps approach to the Christian life.
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I like being at home and cooking.
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We knew we were going to be short-handed, being that Chris wasn't playing, and other guys stepped up and played big for us.
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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.
