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"I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back."
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"A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom."
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"I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be built. I want to be an architect."
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"Bernstein grew up in my building in New York. He's a very, very fine player. When he was a kid, he came by to find out what was going on in the world of jazz."
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"I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away."
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"Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous breakdown, because that's what you do when you build a house."
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"In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks."
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"A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built."
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"The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate."
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"Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico."
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"We've already seen how it's going to come in, in a truck, like it did at Oklahoma City at the Federal building or it's going to come in by plane, like it did at the World Trade Center."
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"I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern."
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"The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you."
Energy

"The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture."
American

"As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake."
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"Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read."
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"My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English."
Mother

"My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs."
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"Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco."
Mother

"Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language."
Travel

"There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser."
Physics
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