Maya Lin Quotes
A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.
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'Grey's Anatomy' is a very culturally diverse show.
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
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Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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Christina can sing all the notes, but Britney is just hot!
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It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
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Seasonal flu is now a pandemic that lasts for years and years because you've got so many people that it's jumping back between northern and southern hemispheres and moving itself around the world. By the time it gets back to where it started, it's changed sufficiently so that people are no longer immune.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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I've been lucky to learn by playing all kinds of roles and watching all kinds of really good cinematographers, actors, and directors for many years before people were even aware of me in terms of audience.
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Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
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The one and only time an archangel can Make another angel is when our bodies produce a substance known as ambrosia. Ambrosia,is produced instinctively at a single point in an archangel’s life. It is legend that ambrosia only rises when an archangel loves true.
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To me, what I realized when we were doing 'Spinal Tap' - and the four of us wrote that - is, really, the core of that is the relationship with the two guys who grew up together and that strain when the girlfriend comes in. If that wasn't there, it's a very different movie. Then it's just bumbling guys stumbling along.
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When you step away from it all, you lose perspective.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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My mother was a fashion designer, and my father was a model.
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A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.
