Ai Weiwei Quotes
Contemporary art and the Communist Party are an impossible situation. It’s like oil and water-they can never mix.
Quotes to Explore
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'
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Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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I do ballet and pointe work. I also do tap, commercial jazz and technical jazz, freestyle street dancing.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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My grandma passed away from cancer, and actually, when I was 18, I had an experience with melanoma – it's in the family. I had that experience where everything comes into perspective. It's the weirdest thing, 'cause you're like, 'It will never happen to me,' and when it does, it's like, 'OK, wow.'
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For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.
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I have an appreciation for everywhere I've been so far.
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You can watch someone on – stage cry and cry – but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.
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I can touch my toes, but I bend in a strange way. I'll never be in the Olympics.
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[For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost herds of buffalo.
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The most important thing is to get the fish in quickly and leave it in the water. Forget the hero pose.
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I like the idea of people who've had some success in one form secretly wanting to be something else; I have some of that myself. I look for it in other people who've established themselves in some particular art form, and then you find out that they really would like to design running shoes, or edit literary magazines or something.
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Contemporary art and the Communist Party are an impossible situation. It’s like oil and water-they can never mix.
