Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
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'Die Antwoord' just has a nice ring to it.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
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I try to stay focused.
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You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.
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When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.
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I think it's a shame when the arts have to suffer because of corporate greed. People will always strive to make film, and the only important thing is that we keep trying to make ourselves heard and keep making our films, no matter what the climate is.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.
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I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out.
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner.
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When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.
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I drive to clear my mind, like many people do. It's like, once you get in the car, whatever song you put on, it's so symbiotic. Your mood could change in a second.
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Their knees were purple like a machete in the mouth of a horse I’d loved and kissed and cannot remember now but for how one day he’d simply disappeared into my blood.
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I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.
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Just because you can do something, it doesn't mean you need to - restraint is something I admire.
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There is a certain amount of momentum that is achieved when one country after another reopens their borders.
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The Olympics are an opportunity to redefine the country, but the message is always wrong.
