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Not every person has the same kinds of talents, so you discover what yours are and work with them.

Frank Gehry

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Frank Gehry
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: February 28
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Your best work is your expression of yourself.
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You never build the perfect building. Only Allah is perfect. Life is such. You make decisions on conclusions, then some guy invents something else and the world changes. That's comforting. There's no one way to use museums, no one way to do art. That also means there is no one way to build museums.
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Take what comes your way. Do the best with it. Be responsible as you can and something good will happen.
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