"I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class."

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Maya Lin

#School Quotes #Kids Quotes #Class Quotes

“You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.”
“And now when we hear that Iran and Iraq plan to cooperate more closely and that a fundamentalist is coming to power in Tehran - a man about whom we cannot be sure that he is absolutely averse to terrorism - it is very worrisome.”
“I don't cook 'concepts.' I use my head, but I cook from the heart, I cook for flavor.”
“I find that many entrepreneurs are trying to do everything when it would be cheaper and more time-efficient to delegate, even if there are monetary costs associated with that.”
“Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life.”
“Don't put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket”

Source : "Quotations From Gurudev's Writings". Collected by Chinmaya Mission, Chicago, www.mychinmaya.org.
“I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead.”
“I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.”

Source : "Famke Janssen on her directorial debut, the X-Men films, and Taken 2". Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. October 8, 2012.

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