Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
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I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
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Being honest with you, it's not the 'great' wall of China. It's an all right wall. It's the 'All Right Wall of China.'
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I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as well - you know, the wind and the rain and the thunder. It's almost as if there's a sense of invocation in performance.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
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Teachers alone can't educate young people.
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
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One of the reasons I come to California is that the Republican party seems to have given up on California, and my message to those in California is that we're going to compete nationally as a party, and that includes California.
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I was 16 when I started modelling. It wasn't planned, but nothing in my life has or ever will be planned.
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I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.
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Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
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A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.
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Our efforts will only be effective if ordinary citizens in other countries have confidence that the United States respects their privacy too. And the leaders of our close friends and allies deserve to know that if I want to learn what they think about an issue, I will pick up the phone and call them, rather than turning to surveillance.
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Anyone fighting for freedom does not want to totally lose their freedom.
