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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Perhaps there is no other way of reaching some understanding of being than through art? Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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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 last eight years have created a lot of deep-seated hostility. People take political decisions very personally, and today there is a constant, ongoing attack, with one side or the other being maligned.
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I've been diving for about 30 years, and I can honestly say that I've had some amazing encounters with sharks, squids, and other whales. But the encounter with the right whales in the Auckland Islands was probably the best thing I've ever done. It was just that amazing.
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To know that all is well, even if late will come to know it, is at least some gain.
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Everyone, whether he is self-denying or self-indulgent, is seeking after the Beloved. Every place may be the shrine of love, whether it be mosque or synagogue.
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The early Mussalmans accepted Islam not because they knew it to be revealed but because it appealed to their virgin reason.
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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.
