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Maya Lin

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

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Akiroq Brost

"The book-learned preacher who carries the badge of authority, is by no means religious."

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"Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest."

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"As artists, we are eternally heartbroken."

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"I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict for civil liberty, and a Union which will defend it."

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"I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority."

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"The State Film Authority will be there for film as industry only, as is the case in all the other states, except Victoria. Victoria is moving more now into supporting non-commercial films."

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"Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country."

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"The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes."

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"No authority is higher than reality."

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"Now they call in all of the authority figures they can find and hire them - the cost has gone up. The picture may or may not get better, but definitely, it gets more cumbersome."

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Maya Lin
"Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture."

Architecture

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Maya Lin
"OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me."

American

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"I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was."

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Maya Lin
"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."

Adolescence

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Maya Lin
"My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground."

Father

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"Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have."

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"My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight."

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Maya Lin
"In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures."

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"Every memorial in its time has a different goal."

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"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."

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