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" How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now. "

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" 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. "

" When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family. "

" To fly we have to have resistance. "

" 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. "

" For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn. "

" 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. "

" You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down. "

" Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next. "

" All my work is much more peaceful than I am. "

" Every memorial in its time has a different goal. "

" I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd. "

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

" 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. "

" OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me. "

" You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The role of art in society differs for every artist. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light. "

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

" Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have. "

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

" It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it. "

" Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think. "

" I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination. "

" I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character. "

" My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions. "

" 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. "