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Maya Lin

"We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother."

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"We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother."

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"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."

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"I'd come from the bottom of the barrel. Just Owen Hart getting out of the shadow of Bret Hart's little brother. Everyone figured, this is a joke, Owen's going to get squashed."

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"Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant."

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"If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner."

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"I have an older brother who is 21 and attends UC Berkley."

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"At first it was my brother's songwriting and I was just doing what everyone told me."

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"No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another."

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"There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother."

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"I so desperately wanted to be Mr. Somebody. Instead, I was the little brother, included to a point."

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"The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters."

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