Lin Quotes

Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters.

The reason I make that distinction cassette before CD is you have to listen to it in the order in which I've curated it for you. You know, side A to side B is our act break.

I will lay down my life if it sets us free.

I feel like style is like accent. You don't hear it on yourself, and then everyone's like, man, you got a strong accent.

Life is too short to make an over-serious business out of it.

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.

All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell.

Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do.

Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.

No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves.

All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.

A tendency to fly too straight at a goal, instead of circling around it, often carries one too far.

does a society exist where it's become acceptable to wear 'helmets' enclosing one's entire head when in public to preempt social interaction

On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in.

In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

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.

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.

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

I'm very humbled and honored. I'm very thankful to the Asian-American Community for all their support!

Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.

You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.

I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

Poetry has roots, but they are sometimes cut off and still poetry is written.

Competitions are what you do as a good exercise.

At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen.

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

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.

I'm in my 60s, and a cancer scare just makes you more aware of mortality.

Working women went through a time when they believed that.

It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.

[My muse] she's impatient with me, because I don't do what I should do: sit down and write.

We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.

I'm as much interested in the form-making as well as getting you to think about what we're doing to the world around us.

It was a real dream come true just to get the job [in Moana], and yeah, and we sort of got right to work.

I was one of several songwriters I think interviewed [for Moana]. I'm a huge fan of Disney animated movies, and I've always wanted to write an animated score since I was a little kid.

I have been working on this movie [Moana] since before Hamilton happened.

My sister is as responsible for anyone for giving me good taste in music.

The fact that I'm a performer helps me enormously as a lyricist.

It's an enormous relief to go to work and be an actor and not be worried about writing.

Well, hello. My name is Lin. But if you're dyslexic, call me Nil.

I don't know how to incorporate regret. But I'll say, like, "It affected me that way," "I learned this," "Next time maybe I'll do it differently".

Not until we see the richness of the Hindu mind and its essential spirituality can we understand India

If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.

Art is both creation and recreation.

Why should man bother himself so much about salvation, unless he has a feeling of being doomed?

No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature.