"Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid."

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"Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid."

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"The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought, That's what I want to do."

"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves."

"Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame."

"One thought fills immensity."

"All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows."

"We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them."

"Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it."

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"A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn't have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible."

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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."

"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."

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