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"School...school... is just nothing... if you think that you are going to learn something. You are here wrong, you wanna see the system?It's in about23 Channels as a start then increases... decreases... even with different topics in the end... they want you to recall the whole data from the 23 Channels as for Perfect, as For under Perfect Okay..okay... but still not perfect, as for Good... Just an Okay... and as for Middle... Little from there and little from there as for the last... Nothing at all."
"A child educated only at school is an uneducated child."
"You ought to go to a boy's school sometime. Try it sometime," I said. "It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques."
"When asked 'What do we need to learn this for?' any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the knowledge will come in handy once the student hits middle age and starts working crossword puzzles in order to stave off the terrible loneliness."
"I went out to visit Dorsey Burnette, after I graduated high school."
"I could run, but I was throwing 93 mph coming out of high school."
"Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated."
"High school, you don't want to go back and do it over again."
"The NAACP was even considering earlier this summer reassessing their position on school integration."
Explore more quotes by Maya Lin
"It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public."
"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."
"Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist."
"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."
"Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field."
"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."
"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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