Ai Weiwei Quotes
Once you’ve tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.
Quotes to Explore
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.
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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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A soccer game is a Wagner opera. The narrative sets up, the tension builds, the music ebbs and flows, the strings, the horns, more tension, and suddenly a moment of pure bliss, trumpet-tongued Gabriel sings, and gods descend from Olympus to dance - this peak of ecstasy.
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The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.
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Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.
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There are people who, if they see something in couture that they perceive as ready-to-wear, they're in shock.
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If Iraq had succeeded in spray-drying anthrax spores to extend their life and lethality, that would have been among the most important secrets of its wide-ranging weapons program.
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I would go to cosmetics counters and buy two or three foundations and powders, and then go home and mix them before I came up with something suitable for my undertones.
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How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?
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I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though.
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The plane took off at 8:10 in the morning - or that's when it was scheduled to take off. And that's when I believe it took off. I had been in my office at the Department of Justice. Someone told me that there had been the two strikes that occurred at the World Trade Center.
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You realize mortality is everywhere.
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Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.
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I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.
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It feels presumptuous to think of writing for adults.
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Whatever you do, don't discourage your dreaming propensity. Your heart's desires are not empty vaporings. They foreshadow possible realities. Man was made to aspire, to look upward.
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.
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There's one other thing too. No car can truly be great unless it's a Ferrari.
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Once you’ve tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.
