“ 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. ”
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“ The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn’t about money. It was about teaching, or learning. ”
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“ Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication. ”
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“ I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination. ”
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“ My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up. ”
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“ I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that. ”
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“ It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public. ”
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“ I wanted to create a hill indoors. This is the only imaginary landscape. ”
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“ It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public. ”
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“ We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother. ”
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“ We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother. ”
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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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“ 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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