Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I know what to do and I go and execute.
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I love to cook. I could never give that up.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
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If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
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If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
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The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
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Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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I used to hate working out - until I learned how to do it properly.
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Title IX came along and changed a lot of things for the better, but nevertheless, it meant that money became more important.
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When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'
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I believe the record I was allowed to help establish by the side of the president was important.
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It is a struggle. But I don't mind. I will just keep fighting on.
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I had a house in Haiti, in the hills above the North Atlantic coast. The house appeared as if out of a dream: my dream to have a foothold in the country. Like many concepts do in Haiti, the phrase 'pied a terre' became literal, material.
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Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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My daughter's the greatest thing that's happened to me in my life and she turned me into a more responsible man, as opposed to just someone who's a perpetual teenager, thinking you're a man when you're not.
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I can cook anything.
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Me, I just don't care about proprietary software. It's not 'evil' or 'immoral,' it just doesn't matter. I think that Open Source can do better, and I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is by working on Open Source, but it's not a crusade – it's just a superior way of working together and generating code.
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In the past, Google has used teams of humans to 'read' its street address images - in essence, to render images into actionable data. But using neural network technology, the company has trained computers to extract that data automatically - and with a level of accuracy that meets or beats human operators.
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The Internet is the best thing that could have happened to China.
