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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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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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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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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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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I like all kinds of movies, I love movies; and I always wanted to try and make one.
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The culture of self-gratification and deregulation that began during the Clinton years and continued under President George W. Bush led to the bursting of one stock market bubble at the turn of the century and a full-scale financial crash less than a decade later.
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If somebody says, 'Well, what are your favorite composers?' really, what they are saying is, 'What are your favorite composers apart from Bach?' Because obviously, Bach is your favorite composer if you are involved in music at all.
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Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players.
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My work has always been political, because the choice of being an artist is political in China.
