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"My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere. I take our youngsters with us because I don't know anything that teaches them so much."
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"I haven't actually spoken to my parents since the hurricane."
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"I think the shape of our bodies has as much to do with the shape of our parents as it does with training."
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"For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows."
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"My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician."
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"I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking."
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"When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them."
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"Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again."
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"I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal."
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"My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind."
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"I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts."
School

"Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field."
Thinking

"It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it."
Funny

"When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family."
Family

"I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination."
Architecture

"Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles."
Love

"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

"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."
Parents

"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."
Life

"The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost."
War
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