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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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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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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I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs.
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One of my concerns for my children is growing up with your parents having a lot of money.
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I'm actually a very shy person. You'd be surprised how many leaders are shy. They're not all extroverts by nature.
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To be able to be onstage and to hear people in the audience go, 'That's my song!' It's amazing.
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You got a resident corner here... Shit-down corner. Now it's gotta be one or the other. If you ain't gotta tackle, you'd better cover. If you ain't gotta cover, you'd better tackle. THEY AIN'T DOIN' NOTHING EITHER
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Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There's shopping malls coming out of the walls, as we walk out among the manure. That's why I pay no mind.
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You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change. And that’s precisely what our society is doing!
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What do women want?" Sigmund Freud cried. Books and cats are a good start.
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The Internet is the best thing that could have happened to China.
