Ai Weiwei Quotes
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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Accept loss forever.
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I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.
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My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
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The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.
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Friends give me a hard time about the pants I'm wearing, which are made in China. Well, how do you find the right clothes? Or the right movie studio? The right people giving you checks? Good luck doing the right thing all the time.
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With the internet, things are so much more immediate. People taste-test things to see if they want to buy the CD.
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Like at Halloween: I knew I'd arrived when I saw people dressing up on Halloween as my character.
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No autocracy can lead people to believe that they are living in harmony and happiness.
