Ai Weiwei Quotes
Freedom of speech implies the world isn’t defined. It is meaningful when people are allowed to see the world their way.
Quotes to Explore
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I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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Mucinex were like, 'Would you like to be the Mucinex man? You sound like you're sick right now'. In each spot, they give me a little bit of room to do something strange. And in a world of fractured mediums, where there is no zeitgeist, and you get your comedy from your phone, it's all content.
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To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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As I got older and started moving up the ranking, the matches got more important, and my emotions ratcheted up. I guess I hid my real feelings behind the anger.
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If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.
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I used to hang out with Salvador Dali a lot. He was such a nice man. I really liked his wife Gala, too. People say that she was tricky, but she was never difficult with me.
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These were big ones. Those companies would then go in and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and these would basically serve just a few of the very wealthiest families in those countries.
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You simply couldn't make a living as an author if New Zealand was your only market.
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Freedom of speech implies the world isn’t defined. It is meaningful when people are allowed to see the world their way.
