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"I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character."
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"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
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"I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead."
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"We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."
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"Rather than wait to see what the day or future holds, why not design and plan the future you want to experience?"
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"Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves."
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"We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us."
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"Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring and iconic building was entrusted to a gardener."
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"If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have enough room for a house. If you put enough houses together, you have space for a town, then a city, then a nation, then a world."
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"The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls but in the space within to be lived in."
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"It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect."
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"It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it."
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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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"In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures."
Architecture
"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."
Time
"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
"My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar."
Father
"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."
Love
"It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level."
Time
"I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination."
Architecture
"I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class."
Class
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