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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."
"I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts."
"My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination."
"I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist."
Exlpore more Work quotes
"The world system is employment."
"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."
Work,
"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."
"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."
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