Ai Weiwei Quotes
With 140 words in Chinese, you really can write a novel. Most of Confucius’s sentences are only four words, so 140 words might take his whole life to write. And you can discuss the most profound ideas related to democracy, freedom, poetry.
Quotes to Explore
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It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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You need a big ego to be an artist.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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Excellence always sells.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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You know how you put peanut butter on a piece of bread and the bread falls - it never falls on the bread side down, it always falls peanut butter side down. That's because of gravity.
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Movies don't have borders.
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
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Art is not an end but a beginning.
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I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.
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Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.
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We need to encourage investors to invest in high-technology startups.
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Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.
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With 140 words in Chinese, you really can write a novel. Most of Confucius’s sentences are only four words, so 140 words might take his whole life to write. And you can discuss the most profound ideas related to democracy, freedom, poetry.
