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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Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.
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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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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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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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I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression. It was becoming worse. And I was being treated for it with anti-depressants.
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Dare to visualize a world in which your most treasured dreams have become true.
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We must reject dictatorship in whatever form it takes — and especially when it rears its head in our own midst on the bench.
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I don't care what word you use: my job is to design clothing that is not out there for us.
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I got really hooked on this riff in the middle of this song called 'Minor Miracles' by my friend Eric Johnson from Fruit Bats. I got the tracks for that from him, and that turned into 'Here in Spirit.'
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My work has always been political, because the choice of being an artist is political in China.
