Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Quotes to Explore
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
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In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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Broader social concerns within Muslim communities, such as discrimination, integration or socio-economic disadvantages, should be treated distinctively and not as part of counterterrorism agenda, which has been counter-productive.
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I'm used to being part of 'Game of Thrones' and going into something where you're a small part of something else. You don't want to hold anything up because they've got such a well-oiled machine going.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden in my life.
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It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.
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I want to be more than just some guy who played in a World Cup final.
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We pushed it a little too far. We got caught with something NASCAR didn't like, they imposed a penalty on us, and we have to accept that.
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All good ideas are terrible... Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll never get to the obvious part.
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Twitter is the people’s tool, the tool of the ordinary people, people who have no other resources.
