Ai Weiwei Quotes
Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man.
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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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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I see in the melody of Nature, God. It is a wonderful work of art. The spirit of the art is wonderful. And I feel that I am myself because I have never taken music lightly. Music is the manifestation of God, like everything else.
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When I first knew I was having children, I thought I wanted boys, but then I thought I'd be better with girls. I'm quite sensitive, and you get more cuddles with girls. And they like their dads.
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I can't judge myself by 'God Only Knows.' No one writes songs as good as that.
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Acting is about covering up traces of who you are and just being the character. I think it's easier to accept people in roles if you don't know a lot about them.
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Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man.
