Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Long hair, for me, is actually less maintenance. I went through a phase when I was kid where I wanted a pixie cut. At the time I thought it looked awesome, but I look back and I looked like such a dork! When I have short hair, I feel like I have to blow dry it, or it doesn't sit properly.
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Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
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Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.
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Democrats hate success.
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In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
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I first fell in love with music when I was a little boy. When I first heard music, I felt the beauty in it. Then, being able to tap along on a table top and box was great, but my favorite thing to do was to watch records spin. I would almost get hypnotized by it. These things are what drew me in initially.
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I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.
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I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
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My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities.
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The - I don't want to say older, but the more experienced I get, I treasure and I honor what I've done much more.
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With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification.
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Whenever I come to Delhi, I forget about eating right and watching my weight.
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Everything in my life affects my writing. There are no separate parts of my life.
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The writer must take the right to explore, warts and all, both the enemy and the beloved comrade in arms, since only a try for the truth makes sense of being, only a try for the truth edges towards justice just ahead of Yeats's beast slouching to be born.
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It is not logical for art to be logical. Art goes against the grain of the times as readily as it goes with it and at the very same moment. Instead of seeking the nearest exit, art responds to a new situation by uncovering a labyrinth of problems.
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If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.
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The fellow is an absolute outsider, anyone can see that. He’s got a great black beard, and wears patent leather boots in all weathers!
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I grew up in a time when we didn't have the Internet, and we didn't have smartphones and things like that.
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Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company...
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I'm not running for office. I just want people to come to my stuff and escape and see me as a character, not as anything else.
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I think that I, Jack McBrayer, am somewhat of a people pleaser, and I do enjoy being good at my job. But I would never endanger my life with gullibility or naivete.
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O Earth, O Earth, return! Arise from out the dewy grass; Night is worn; And the morn Rises from the slumbrous mass.
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The government computer has one button: delete.
