Ai Weiwei Quotes
My work has always been political, because the choice of being an artist is political in China.

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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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Though it has plenty of competitors, Slack claims to be the 'fastest growing business application in history'.
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I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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You have to try things you're really afraid of, even if you pee yourself a little bit.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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Time past, present, and to come, as also depth and height, near and afar off, are all one in God, one comprehensibility.
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I wouldn't have dared ask God for all that He's given me. I couldn't have done it on my own. I thank God every day for what I have.
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There are some who call Yiddish a dead language, but so was Hebrew called for two thousand years. It has been revived in our time in a most remarkable, almost miraculous way. Aramaic was certainly a dead language for centuries but then it brought to light the Zohar, a work of mysticism of sublime value.
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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
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I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians.
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My work has always been political, because the choice of being an artist is political in China.