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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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"Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn't have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends."
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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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"My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground."
Father
"I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me."
Art
"I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts."
School
"I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class."
Class
"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."
Time
"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
"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."
Art
"Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think."
Age
"My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions."
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"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."
Politics
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