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learning Maya Lin

Maya Lin | learning

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn’t about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

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Home Maya Lin

Maya Lin | home

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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funny Maya Lin

Maya Lin | funny

It’s funny, as you live through something you’re not aware of it.

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freedom Maya Lin

Maya Lin | freedom

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.

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family Maya Lin

Maya Lin | family

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they’ be censored. We were a very insular little family.

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Death Maya Lin

Maya Lin | death

If we can’t face death, we’ll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.

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Dad Maya Lin

Maya Lin | dad

My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.

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business Maya Lin

Maya Lin | business

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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art Maya Lin

Quote from Maya Lin | art

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architecture Maya Lin

Quote from Maya Lin | architecture

architecture

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