Ai Weiwei Quotes
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.
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I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.
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I'm definitely a vintage collector. I have a wardrobe of core basics that I like to spice up with different colors, new accessories, and I love to try on new things to invite something different. I find, with every new stage of my life, my self-image shifts with new duties and responsibilities, and so does my fashion style.
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The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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Netflix is something I watch.
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The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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I decided to set out to prove that you could make a reasonable living building for the poor using recycled materials and only hiring unskilled labor.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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The first thing I remember about the world...is that I was a stranger in it. This feeling, which is at once the glory and desolation of homo sapiens, provides the only thread of consistency that I can detect in my life.
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I work to take care of my family, not the other way around.
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I think people can learn from my experience - you know, any young people who are under pressure, whether you work on Wall Street or you work in a factory in Alabama, and young journalists.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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But censorship by itself doesn’t work. It is, as Mao said, about the pen and the gun.
