Ai Weiwei Quotes
My activism is a part of me. If my art has anything to do with me, then my activism is part of my art.
Quotes to Explore
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I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.
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I put my friends and family first. I'm really just a normal thirteen-year-old girl who has a different hobby than most girls my age. Acting is kind of an extracurricular activity.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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I don't think it's good for people to know too much about you. With my favourite bands, I don't want to have the inside track on every single aspect of their personal lives.
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
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One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.
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I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.
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Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white people, some Chinese, Filipino, Jewish and black people - they're all here.
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I'm not looking back, but I want to look around me now. - Time Stand Still (1987)
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The assertion that art may be good art and at the same time incomprehensible to a great number of people is extremely unjust, and its consequences are ruinous to art itself...it is the same as saying some kind of food is good but most people can't eat it.
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All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.
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My activism is a part of me. If my art has anything to do with me, then my activism is part of my art.
