Ai Weiwei Quotes

Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man.

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• When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

  

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• I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.

  

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• I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.

  

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• I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale.

  

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• You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.

  

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• If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.

  

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• My spiritual evolution I would describe as journey from literalism to figuratism. I now see all religious texts as pointing to an ineffable truth.

  

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• I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.

  

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• My father is very dry and very quick-witted, and my mother is very silly. It was the perfect combination because I got an education in physical and verbal comedy.

  

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• Ah... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils that's freshly picked from the field.

  

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• I think with every part you do, you become a better actor. I've learned from my experiences on that.

  

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• Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.

  

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• When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s.

  

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• Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.

  

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• Some day I shall be President.

  

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• If you put together all the Christians in the world, with their Emperors and their Kings, the whole of these Christians, - aye, and throw in the Saracens to boot, - would not have such power, or be able to do so much as this Kublai, who is Lord of all the Tartars in the world.

  

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• I love stuff like Mozart.

  

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• I oppose the personhood amendment. Years ago I'd said that I'd supported it - it was the wrong idea. Looking at it, talking to people of Colorado, I don't support it.

  

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• I often quote Hitler, who said words to the effect of, "Rulers are fortunate that the people do not think." Politicians know this. Even when the public seems to be upset, the politicians know if they can put on a brave face and ride it out, they generally will.

  

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• Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man.

  

  Ai Weiwei
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