Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Middle school was probably my hardest time. I was trying to fit in for so long, until about junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy.
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I was very, very little - it was the first time I ever cooked on my own, with my mother's supervision - and I made scrambled eggs. I felt so accomplished, like magic!
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I would do anything and I will continue to do anything I can to stop the train wreck that is Obamacare.
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Sure, being a reservist wasn't as glamorous, but I was the one who had to look at myself in the mirror.
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I find it difficult to attend autopsies. Especially the smells.
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I don't have one role that I want to play. I guess... I want to be a producer. I want to be an activist. I want to be proactive in bringing about work for men, women, boys, girls, everybody who is good at what they do and deserve a shot at it.
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September 11 happened, and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.
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Donald Trump did not appear by magic.
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When I'm away from the field, I show a little more emotion and stuff.
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In America, Blackberry Farm in Tennessee is one of the most amazing hotels I've had the privilege of staying at.
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Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.
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As we continue advancing and leveraging GIS and as we keep bringing in new generations of technology as well as new generations of people, my sense is we're going to achieve extraordinary things.
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I like the pressure of having to perform so people will come to me.
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cupido dominandi cunctis adfectibus flagrantior est
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We tried to find the mayor. His secretary said he was at home. His wife said he was at the office. In Italy or France this would mean His Honor was having an affair. In Chabarovice it probably meant he'd run off to be a busboy in Stuttgart.
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When I was one-and-twentyI heard a wise man say,'Give crowns and pounds and guineasBut not your heart away.'
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Saints do not die. It is their lot, To die while on this earth to all that God is not.
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Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
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In human affairs we accomplish everything through prayer. What has been properly arranged we keep in order, what has gone amiss we change and improve, what cannot be changed and improved we bear, overcoming all the trouble and sustaining all the good by prayer. Against force there is no help but prayer alone.
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Writing-wise, I like to have a lot of things on the burners at once, because when I hit a wall, I like to move on to the thing I haven't hit a wall on.
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Don't judge a book by its cover.
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Labor Day is seen as a day of rest for many hardworking Americans.
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There are a lot of people building small ideas now. There's an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea.
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We need to get out of the old language.
