Maya Lin Quotes
You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.
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I think we've become a TV culture, where we forget the live performer in front of us can see us. I think there is a self-centeredness that happens. There's nothing more important than what you are doing in that moment. So, unless it's an emergency, put your phone away.
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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Humans don't 'need' math-based cryptocurrencies when dealing with other humans. We walk slowly, talk slowly, and buy big things. Credit cards, cash, wires, checks - the world seems fine.
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.
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I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're heartbroken, but tomorrow you'll be in love again.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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I'm really boring. I get up early. I go to bed early. I don't smoke or drink. I mean, I'll eat a cupcake. I'm just not a crazy, stay-out-all-night sort of person. I love writing.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
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I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.
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It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.
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If you have a mental model that says big corporations are fundamentally greedy and selfish and exploitative, you don't really want to have an exception to that model. It's much easier to say, 'Yes, Whole Foods has been corrupted.'
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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I come from a very big family from every economic background. Some of the streets I talk about, I've actually walked on because I have family from there. Jamaica has so many contradictions.
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Really, what the government is asking Apple to do is to make every individual who uses an iPhone susceptible to hacking by bad people, foreign governments, and anyone who wants.
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You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.
