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"I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did."
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"I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California and went to the Musicians Institute in L.A. I wanted to get better as a player."
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"It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street."
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"Further more Yemen is leading pioneer in democratic practice, lots of brothers and friends testified on that."
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"Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord."
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"My brother Cody is 19. He wants to stay out of the limelight and become a lawyer. I want him to be an entertainment lawyer, so he can help me out!"
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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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"I have a brother who's a psychologist. He says three-quarters of the world are born feeling that they will be affected by the world; one quarter are born knowing that they will affect the world."
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"I headed out to have a breather at the stage door, dressed in my tramp costume. I had my bowler hat between my feet and there were passers-by, and one of them turned back and said, 'Do you need help, brother?' And $1 fell into my hat!"
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"Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong."
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"When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business."
Business

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

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

"I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up."
School

"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."
Nature

"The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical."
Art

"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."
Parents

"Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist."
Architecture

"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."
Love

"Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field."
Thinking
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