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"Across town, over in the East Village, the graffiti was calling for the rich to be eaten, imprisoned, or taxed out of existence. Though it sometimes seemed like a nice idea, I hoped the revolution would not take place during my lifetime. I didn't want the rich to go away until I could at least briefly join their ranks."

"But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish."

"My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing."

"The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized."

"My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown."

"After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised myself and my teachers by obtaining a first class examination result."

"They put me in the drama class, and that's the path I've taken."

"We don't want to go back to the same policies and the same practices that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led us to this catastrophe. We have to keep moving forward."
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"Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice."

"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."

"I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with."

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

"Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture."

"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."

"To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom."

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