Ai Weiwei Quotes
Twitter is the people’s tool, the tool of the ordinary people, people who have no other resources.
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'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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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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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
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When you have a celebrity who is willing to shine his personal spotlight on the non-profit and can also speak articulately about the mission, that's really the best of both worlds.
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I tend to write some, then outline some, then delete some, then go back and rewrite some. I love revising and hate first drafts. I have to wear bedroom slippers. My current favorites come from the Zetter Hotel in London. They have little tobacco pipes on the toes.
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I admire people who just do the right thing, not looking to screw people up. I love all people.
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Power travels in the bloodlines, handed out before birth.
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I used Atlantic like I was supposed to.
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Twitter is the people’s tool, the tool of the ordinary people, people who have no other resources.
