Ai Weiwei Quotes
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So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.
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When you're 21, you think, 'Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40 and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then.' And actually, I quite like the way I look.
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My head was always in books.
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Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.
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Everyone deals with loss. I'm no different, but we all find our ways of coming through things. Is it tough? Of course, but you find the strength to push on through.
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If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.
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Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look very carefully and weigh very carefully what anyone says.
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We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.
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When women work together, it's a bond unlike any other.
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I guess I just feel bad that I'm still going on bad dates when I should really be in a bad marriage by now.
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Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.
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I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I will become your PM. So I'm offering myself as the alternative PM - that's one way people describe the Leader of the Opposition - but I'm not in politics for myself to realize a personal ambition.
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Fools follow rules when the set commands you.
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What the poet has in mind . . . is that poetic value is an intrinsic value. It is not the value of knowledge. It is not the value of faith. It is the value of imagination. The poet tries to exemplify it, in part as I have tried to exemplify it here, by identifying it with an imaginative activity that diffuses itself throughout our lives.
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I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.
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There are those fallen who don’t get up so as not to fall again.
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I've always loved film and wanted to work in film. I just love working and creating new characters, and trying different genres and different things.
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The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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And indeed this theme has been at the centre of all my research since 1943, both because of its intrinsic fascination and my conviction that a knowledge of sequences could contribute much to our understanding of living matter.
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There is always something moving, brewing. There are ambitious people everywhere. Wicked people. The only thing to do is to deal with them with courage and decision. One must beware of uncertainty, weakness or conflicting emotions - they lead to defeat
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Not an inch of the land belongs to you, but every inch could easily imprison you.
