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I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd. ↗

— 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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I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere. ↗

— Maya Lin

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My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions. ↗

— Maya Lin

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Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid. ↗

— Maya Lin

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The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical. ↗

— Maya Lin

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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

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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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