Ai Weiwei Quotes
I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable-how we decide what is valuable.
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Awards don't really mean much.
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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
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I love cooking and baking.
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There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard.
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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
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I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes.
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I believe that if Democrats - not any one Democrat, and certainly not just me - want to start winning races again, Lujan's statement that the DCCC would fund candidates who oppose abortion rights puts our country in danger and makes it all the more likely that the Republicans will continue to defeat us in election after election.
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O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
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No education is ever wasted and everything you learn is helpful in acting.
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It does not destroy matter, which is reassuring. Rewriting one law of physics is worse than trying to eat one peanut.
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Only when the true ends of society have nothing to do with the sublime does 'culture' become necessary as a veneer to cover over the void. Culture can at best appreciate the monuments of earlier faith; it cannot produce them.
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In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart.
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The contrasts and contradictions that can permanently live peacefully side by side in a skull make all the systems of political optimists and pessimists illusory.
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As for my memory, I have a particularly good one. I never keep any record of my investigations or experiments. My memory files all these things away conveniently and reliably. I should say, though, that I didn’t cumber it up with a lot of useless matter.
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... Property can exit only under the guardianship of the State.
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Al-Qur'an is not a book of Science, ‘S-C-I-E-N-C-E’ but a book of Signs ‘S-I-G-N-S
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When guys come over to date my daughter, I'm going to tell them, "I want you to go out and have a very good time with my daughter. I want you to enjoy yourself and have her home on time. If you abuse her in any way, I'm going to kill your mother and father, cut your back open, pull out your spine, and leave you in a wheelchair so you can think about what you did for the rest of your life. Now, go out and have a good time!
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My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.
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I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable-how we decide what is valuable.
