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"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."

"Never underestimate the power of a simple thought."

"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."

"I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency."

"In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social."
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"My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight."

"It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar."

"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."

"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."
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