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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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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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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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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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.
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Instead of going to the ends of the Earth - and plumbing the depths of the oceans - to squeeze out every last drop of oil, we need, instead, to do everything we can to reduce the risks of offshore oil and gas production.
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Gossip, in its earlier forms, contained information that was critical to survival because, in clans of 150, what happened to anyone had a direct impact on everyone.
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We have always been prepared to negotiate with the U.S. government everything that has to do with bilateral relations, on a basis of the strictest mutual respect for the sovereign rights of each country. We will never try to ask the government of the United States to change its economic and political system.
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I've seen the growth of this game in this country, the stadiums that were built, the great European players that have come and the great American players who've been created. Americans want to be number one at everything. And they are at baseball, football, basketball. Soccer is growing fast, and I want to be a part of that.
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An emerging market is a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market.
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The Olympics are an opportunity to redefine the country, but the message is always wrong.
