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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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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I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.
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One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.
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Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.
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I knew that I had to train with intensity and focus, but I never thought about the weight on the bar.
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The Internet is the best thing that could have happened to China.
