Ai Weiwei Quotes
My messages are temporary and shouldn’t be our permanent condition. And like the wind it will pass. We’ll have another wind coming.
Quotes to Explore
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
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My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
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Back in high school, I didn't ever see a Muslim homecoming king or queen - there was never even anyone nominated. It just seemed for a lot of those events, Muslim kids were not being included, and it was probably our fault too - no one was going for it, but no one was trying to push us to do it, you know?
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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I think the fame aspect, there was definitely a period when I had to get used to it. My family had to get used to it, too. It's exciting.
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Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.
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The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
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Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
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'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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I don't remember my first race, but I do recall various school sports days where I became way too competitive. We were seven or eight years old, and I had a very stern conversation with my relay team-mates about how crucial it was for us to win.
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The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.
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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.
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I conceived 'All Is Song' as a modernised, loosely interpreted version of Socrates's life.
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I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do in school, but I definitely didn't have adequate time to reach my full potential as a student.
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I have to admit, I underestimated Billie Jean and overestimated myself.
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'It’s a nitwit idea.''Yes, sir.''Nitwit ideas are for emergencies. You use them when you’ve got nothing else to try. If they work, they go in the Book. Otherwise you follow the Book, which is largely a collection of nitwit ideas that worked.'
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You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.
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I’d rather interview 50 people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person.
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Sit and be still until in the time of no rain you hear beneath the dry wind's commotion in the trees the sound of flowing water among the rocks, a stream unheard before, and you are where breathing is prayer.
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My messages are temporary and shouldn’t be our permanent condition. And like the wind it will pass. We’ll have another wind coming.
