Ai Weiwei Quotes

When the mayor of Nagoya denies the Nanjing Massacre, he gets blacklisted by the city of Nanjing. When the government of Sichuan denies 'tofu dregs' construction which caused the collapse of several schools, they get blacklisted by me.

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• I feel like I personally have been lucky.

  

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• He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.

  

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• With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.

  

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• We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children.

  

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• More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

  

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• It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.

  

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• I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'

  

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• You want your coach's blessing.

  

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• I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.

  

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• I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.

  

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• Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

  

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• I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.

  

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• Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.

  

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• The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.

  

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• When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.

  

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• So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing.

  

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• You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.

  

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• Poor air quality, which can be influenced by a variety of fumes, chemicals and allergens, is arguably the leading cause of triggers for most asthmatics in urban areas.

  

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• I definitely use 'smiling while rapping' as a tool in the booth. I want to have fun while recording.

  

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• The London I entered was a great bustling metropolitan city at war, an imperial power fighting to hold on to that empire. And the teeming colonial subjects of that empire did not, on the whole, want England to lose that war, but they also did not want the empire to emerge unchanged from it. This, for very many of us, was the hard dilemma.

  

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• I've spent most of my life in cities, and so I've always lived with the curiosity about what makes for city cultures and how peoples live in cities, how peoples anywhere manage to co-exist, the public life and the private life.

  

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• I would love to take another stab at really smart, speculative sci-fi - my first was a bit of a stumble. I look forward to getting another chance.

  

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• When the mayor of Nagoya denies the Nanjing Massacre, he gets blacklisted by the city of Nanjing. When the government of Sichuan denies 'tofu dregs' construction which caused the collapse of several schools, they get blacklisted by me.

  

  Ai Weiwei
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