My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.
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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.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The American Dream is about pursuing your true passion and achieving personal freedom.
Maya Lin's quote emphasizes the essence of the American Dream as the opportunity to pursue one's individual calling and personal ambitions. This notion of freedom implies that true happiness and fulfillment come from engaging in work that resonates with one's true self, illustrating the fundamental belief in the power of individual choice and self-determination in achieving a meaningful life.
Themes
American DreamFreedomPersonal CallingInspirationSelf-Determination
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about entrepreneurship, one could say, 'As Maya Lin puts it, the American Dream is about the incredible freedom to follow your personal calling.'
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Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.
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A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.
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When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.
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