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I'm very humbled and honored. I'm very thankful to the Asian-American Community for all their support! ↗

— Jeremy Lin

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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. ↗

— Maya Lin

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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

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I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with. ↗

— Maya Lin

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I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character. ↗

— Maya Lin

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Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream. ↗

— Blanche Lincoln

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If we invest in the American people, the American people always bring this Nation a good return. ↗

— Blanche Lincoln

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I am proud to be an American, and proud that such beliefs are at the core of our country and its citizens. ↗

— John Linder

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I'm so proud of my Chinese ancestry, but I was born and raised in America, and I really believe in American values, our American system, our freedom, our liberties. ↗

— Gary Locke

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If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives, and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

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