Ai Weiwei Quotes
'It became like a symbolic thing, to be 'an artist.' After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.'
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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Iggy Pop is God, if God looked half that good with his shirt off.
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I don't sit under the tattoo gun unless I'm sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.
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We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
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On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel farther in language than you can in any film.
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All beautiful things in this world are because of women.
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There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to first base.
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If you do nothing long enough, something's bound to happen.
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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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For me, choice is the most important thing because I'm going to be an adult actor pretty soon. So I've got to be choosing the right roles now so that by the time I get to that age there will be wide options available.
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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Getting and keeping my immunity became very important to me. For I needed to take care of myself and my family. No one else was worried about me.
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Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.
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The gods love those of ordered soul.
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Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One anticipates the unpleasant consequences of reciprocal lying. From this there arises the duty of truth. We permit epic poets to lie because we expect no detrimental consequences in this case. Thus the lie is permitted where it is considered something pleasant. Assuming that it does no harm, the lie is beautiful and charming.
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All things are ready, if our mind be so.
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'It became like a symbolic thing, to be 'an artist.' After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.'
