#mar

With all the media attention, all the love from the fans, I felt I needed to prove myself. Prove that I'm not a marketing tool, I'm not a ploy to improve attendance. Prove I can play in this league. But I've surrendered that to God. I'm not in a battle with what everybody else thinks anymore. ↗

— Jeremy Lin

#attendance #attention #battle #else #everybody

Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice. ↗

— Maya Lin

#asian-american #bit #denmark #growing #growing up

You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art. ↗

— Maya Lin

#art #brain #completely #conviction #everything

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#heaven #hell #neither #nor #purgatory

I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same. ↗

— Terence Stamp

#been #chi #doing #fundamentals #i

There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#breaks #channels #each #flier #into

In fact, things are moving along rather well in Iraq. Nothing is perfect, of course, and freedom is messy work. The cooperation of the three major interests in Iraq has been remarkable. ↗

— John Linder

#been #cooperation #course #fact #freedom

Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#democracy #development #economic #environmental #global

I had friends in this band called Mars and they used to play a lot. ↗

— Arto Lindsay

#called #friends #had #i #lot

I just had this notion that I wanted to do the most extreme thing I could and I also very consciously wanted to do something that was very different from Mars because we were all very close. ↗

— Arto Lindsay

#because #close #consciously #could #different