Maya Lin Quotes

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.

Maya Lin

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Libertarians believe that any government interference is bad. Anyone with a brain knows that climate change needs governmental leadership, and they can smell this is bad news for their philosophy. Their ideology is so strongly held that, remarkably, it's overcoming the facts.

Jeremy Grantham

LeadershipChangeGovernmentBrain

Like a lot of people, for a long time I thought that the road to hell is paved with bad sequels.

Andrew Motion

TimePeopleRoadThoughtHellBad

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

John N. Mitchell

LifeAttitudeUsOurTowardsToward

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

Robert Hughes

ConfidenceGreatArtistPerfectLess

When a trait is universal, evolutionary biologists look for a genetic explanation and wonder how that gene or genes might enhance survival or reproductive success.

Robin Marantz Henig

SuccessSurvivalLookWonderGenes

I used to practice cello while watching TV and films. I watched several complete TV series this way, including 'Lost' and 'The Wire.' As a kid, I'd read books while playing.

Joshua Roman

PracticeLostWayWatchingKidUsed

Years ago I was at a function, and I must have said something really rude to Paul Daniels the magician. I can't recall what I said, but I remember him looking utterly crestfallen. I'm not that sort of person, but I must have said something very cutting and belittling. Our paths haven't crossed since, but if they had, I would have said sorry to him.

Diana Rigg

LookingSorryRememberPathsPerson

The most direct evidence of the wonderful plasticity and elasticity of red corpuscles is obtained when they are watched in a current, where they can be caught against a projecting edge and bent by the pressure of the current flowing past them.

August Krogh

PastRedPressureEdgeEvidence

The more one works, the more willing one is to work.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

WorkMoreWillingWorks

I'm just a normal person, believe me.

Phyllis Smith

MeBelievePersonNormalJust

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.

Paul Wolfowitz

WarWorldWorld War IIEuropeSense

Appearing in 'Legally Blonde' has helped me find my inner girl, although at the beginning the director was constantly telling me off for sitting like a boy, with my legs apart, while wearing a cocktail dress and heels!

Sheridan Smith

GirlBeginningDressMeBlondeFind

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