"I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings."

-- Minoru Yamasaki

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“Iâ€™ve known I was mostly gay ever since I can remember. I know it troubles many people for me to refer to myself as a lesbian considering I have a male partner. I think they gather that it trivializes the plight of the LGBTQIA community & although that couldnâ€™t be further from the truth at this point in my life Iâ€™m trying to steer as far from labeling as possible. Compartmentalizing myself only leads to condemnation & contradiction. Iâ€™m happier being fluid and Iâ€™m happier being honest.”
“And when with excellent Microscopes I discern in otherwise invisible Objects the Inimitable Subtlety of Nature's Curious Workmanship; And when, in a word, by the help of Anatomicall Knives, and the light of Chymicall Furnaces, I study the Book of Nature, and consult the Glosses of Aristotle, Epicurus, Paracelsus, Harvey, Helmont, and other learn'd Expositors of that instructive Volumne; I find my self oftentimes reduc'd to exclaim with the Psalmist, How manifold are thy works, O Lord? In wisdom hast thou made them all.”
“Now you have to ask a question - is that really, is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of other people and walk off with the money? Or is that in fact somehow a little bit of a flawed system? And so I do draw distinction between looting a company, leaving behind broken families and broken neighborhoods and then leaving a factory that should be there.”
“All religions are true but none are literal.”
“What is so intriguing about this interplay between technology and the human imagination is that here we are dealing with the equation. As I imagine, so I become - and this is the very essence of magic.”
“But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more open.”
“London's Windmill Theater grew famous for its nude tableaux. During the 1940 and 1950, this theater overcame the objections of censors by agreeing that none of its naked actors would move any part of his/her body.”
“We must row in whatever boat we find ourselves in.”

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