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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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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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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LeBron James needs to go to another team with two superstars already so he can win a championship.
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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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I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.
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Fools follow rules when the set commands you.
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If you say that you're all about a certain something, and look back and see that the choices that you've made don't reflect that, then there's something for you to look at.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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The main thing is to think strategically about what will engage your readers. Trust me when I tell you that few people are eager to read a story whose opening lines sound like a dissertation on giant bugs.
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Not an inch of the land belongs to you, but every inch could easily imprison you.
