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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like. "

" Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles. "

" The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost. "

" I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them. "

" To fly we have to have resistance. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts. "

" 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. "

" 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. "