Maya Lin Quotes

When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.

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• Teach us to give and not to count the cost.

  

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• From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.

  

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• It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.

  

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• I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.

  

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• My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.

  

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• After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.

  

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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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• I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.

  

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• I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'

  

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• The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.

  

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• My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.

  

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• I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.

  

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• World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.

  

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• Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.

  

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• As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.

  

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• In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.

  

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• No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

  

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• And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.

  

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• The aim of philosophy is to erect a wall at the point where language stops anyway.

  

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• Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.

  

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• I didn't go through the routine of singing in small clubs and doing open mics and working so hard the way a lot of people do and did. It was just an overnight kind of thing.

  

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• When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.

  

  Maya Lin
  • People
  • Business
  • War