Ai Weiwei Quotes
Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?
Quotes to Explore
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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My personality is extremely unbalanced.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.
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People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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I will not have Botox. You know why? Because I eat! I eat the fat, I eat the vegetable, I eat everything. If you exercise and you don't eat enough, it takes its toll on the skin.
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I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.
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I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
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Our relationships are precious, valuable treasures from heaven, and we should handle them carefully, always looking for ways to build bridges to each other's hearts.
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Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.
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Competition is a powerful and essential part of this nation's economy and vital to cutting government costs.
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I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.
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Sometimes I think I don't need a vacation because I do what I like to do. I am very fortunate!
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I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples.
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There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable.
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When I was about 2 years old, I found a bee that had been stepped on on the foot path, and so I picked it up to rescue it, and it stung me on the hand. From that day forward, I've been terrified of bees.
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Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?
