Ai Weiwei Quotes
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It's those damn critics again.
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I get bored easily.
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Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.
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Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money.
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A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing.
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Hair wax is my go-to. When it comes to shampoo, I use whatever is at the rink.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.
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I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong.
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My parents opened a bank account for me when I was really little, and I think I paid for some of my university education with my savings. I've always been a bit of a saver.
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Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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As an author and a burgeoning screenwriter, the fact of the matter is I cannot do this alone.
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We all have that desire to be kind of wild and bad.
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Cambridge is really understanding and helpful, so that's been good, and it's just a case of trying to get stuff done when I am there and just being efficient with managing my time.
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The sequester is not something that I proposed. It's something that Congress has proposed. It will not happen.
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The most appropriate type of daily life for me was a day-by-day world destruction; peace was the most difficult and abnormal state to live in.
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The Destiny of EarthseedIs to take root among the stars.
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I will not be presumptuous enough to say that my life can be a role model for anybody; but some poor child living in an obscure place in an underprivileged social setting may find a little solace in the way my destiny has been shaped. It could perhaps help such children liberate themselves from the bondage of their illusory backwardness and hopelessness.
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It's sad that people will invade someone's privacy - and this is not only regarding someone's private photos - but this goes deep into people's financial privacy, their passwords, their emails, their text messages.
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Why is there an end of the year? Because the calendar imposes numerical order on time. There is a natural fitness in the celebration of the New Year, a holiday of numbers imposed on things, with lists, as well as with Advent calendars and songs like 'The Twelve Days of Christmas.'
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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
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I think the reason you use an actor is if they are right for the role. Most of the high-profile stars tend to be good actors. That's probably what led to their fame. So if they are right for the movie, you can certainly use them. But I don't want to, not at all. Stardom and Hollywood overpower the ideas and the film.
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Once again, the facts have been erased.