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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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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Christlike communications are expressed in tones of love rather than loudness. They are intended to be helpful rather than hurtful. They tend to bind us together rather than to drive us apart. They tend to build rather than to belittle.
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No one should be denied the opportunity to choose his or her spouse. It is a basic human right and deeply personal decision.
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Mothers and daughters find in each other the source of great comfort but also of great pain. We talk to each other in better and worse ways than we talk to anyone else.
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I writhe when I see myself on the screen. I'm such a dreadfully clumsy hulking image. I say to myself, 'Why doesn't he get off? Why doesn't he get off?' I mean, I look like such an idiot. Some fat awkward thing dredged up from some third-rate drama company. I must stop thinking about it, otherwise I shan't be able to go on working.
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For 200 years, the dominant powers have also been the colonial powers: the European countries, the U.S. and Japan. They have never been required to pay their dues for what they did to those whom they possessed and treated with contempt.
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I met Peter O'Toole for the first time at Dad's memorial service because my Dad didn't hang around with people like that when we were around. We didn't grow up with Richard Burton coming around to tea.
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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.
