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.
Uta Hagen
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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
Ramakrishna
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I love cooking and baking.
Rachel Bilson
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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.
Barbara Amiel
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
Mao Zedong
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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.
Ban Ki-moon
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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
Eddie Izzard
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Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
Tcheky Karyo
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When liberty returns, I will return.
Victor Hugo
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
Edmund Burke
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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.
Natalie Maines
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When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.
Ted Danson
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When I write, I want something to sound good itself.
Padgett Powell
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I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes.
Rainn Wilson
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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.
Laura Moser
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O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
T. S. Eliot
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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.
Nadine Gordimer
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No education is ever wasted and everything you learn is helpful in acting.
Irene Dunne
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Through the ear, we shall enter the invisibility of things.
Edmond Jabes
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Dr. Lourie's determined and compassionate advocacy led to new and improved services for thousands of children and families across the nation... the Lourie Center has rededicated itself institutionally to continuing his important work.
C. Everett Koop
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If solitude deprives of the benefit of advice, it also excludes from the mischief of flattery. But the absence of others' applause is generally supplied by the flattery of one's own breast.
William Benton Clulow
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It is unlawful for any person to accept my view without knowing the source from where we got them.
Abu Hanifa
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Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale.
Oliver Goldsmith
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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.
Ai Weiwei