Ai Weiwei Quotes
They know too many things they should not know and they do not know some things they need to know.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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When I represent Team GB, I never give less than 100 per cent. It is an absolute honour.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.
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The truth is that just as the 'West' is not a homogenous entity with one view on foreign and domestic policy, nor are Muslims.
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I used to feel very lonely on the team. The boys would all pair up.
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We must make the government accept that at a time when we are expected to look ahead, we cannot afford to start discriminating against our own people in the name of 'ethos.'
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I think I would have done very well as a writer in the Forties. I think the last time America was a great country was then or not long after. It was before Vietnam, before Watergate.
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I don't want to see that two-tier Senegal, that two-tier Africa, when you have those at the top and those at the bottom, people who are hungry, people who do not have enough to eat.
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I finally, you know, moved to Mexico City, where the film industry is. I started working there as a producer, which is a very, very valid thing for women to do, because we always produce for men, right?
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I never have cakes or biscuits. I don't have a sweet tooth at all, and I can't stand chocolates - I find them so sickly. However, I will buy cakes if I'm expecting company.
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I mix everything up. A museum curator once said to me that there is a great jazz component to the way I do things because good jazz is improvisation and draws elements from all different cultures. And that's the way I do everything - the way I dress and decorate.
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Since I was a child, my father was sick. I've always known him to be that way. That's why I'm proud of him - he has a disease he's obviously struggling with, but he's not letting it stop him from doing what he wants to do.
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My mother is still battling alcoholism.
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Good people all, with one acord,Lament for Madame Blaize,Who never wanted a good word —From those who spoke her praise.
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One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.
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We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.
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Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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The other part of the true religion is our duty to man. We must love our neighbour as our selves, we must be charitable to all men for charity is the greatest of graces, greater then even faith or hope & covers a multitude of sins. We must be righteous & do to all men as we would they should do to us.
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I'm not the kind of person who thrives in 'the scene.'
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They know too many things they should not know and they do not know some things they need to know.
