"I deliberately did not read anything about the……" — Maya Lin
"I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was."
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67 Quotes by Maya Lin
Maya Lin has 67 quotes on this site.
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Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up…
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The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes…
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My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.
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Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find…
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You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because…
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Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.
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I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked…
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I like to think of my work as creating a private conversation with each person, no matter how public each…
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I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the…
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If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.
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I though about what death is, what a loss is. A sharp pain that lessens with time, but can never…
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I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s,…
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I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to…
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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures,…
— Honore de Balzac
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I deliberately fly in and out of LA for as small a time as humanly possible.
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I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog,…
— Iain Banks
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There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important,…
— Dick Butkus
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My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.
— Alex Campbell
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Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling…
— Thomas Carlyle
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The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately…
— Jimmy Carter
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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If…
— Carlos Castaneda
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I was doing sketches that were funny but socially irresponsible. I felt I was deliberately being encouraged and I was…
— Dave Chappelle
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I think I deliberately sold out a couple of times. I picked the songs that I thought would do well…
— Eric Clapton
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