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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It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
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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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We want to nurture startups on our platform, just like we did in the old world.
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Where there is no law there is no freedom.
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Frankly, if people aren't going to cast me because I'm queer, than I don't want to work with them.
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It's like a lot of things, said the smith. Do the least part of it wrong and ye'd just as well to do it all wrong. (p.71)
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Anyone fighting for freedom does not want to totally lose their freedom.