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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Yes, I'm planning to go out again next summer, on concert tour, as a result of the success of the book and the CDs.
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When you walk out of your house in the morning, you don't know what you're going to see.
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I'm so cool that the kids come to my bedroom and go, 'Mom! Turn the music down!'
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A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use of his mother tongue, which is always being corrupted. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.
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I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.
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Not an inch of the land belongs to you, but every inch could easily imprison you.
