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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I don't know where I come from but I'm here now so deal with it.
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I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.
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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 feel at home in intimate concert halls. I can take risks and I'm immediately forgiven if the risk is a failure because it's such a cozy atmosphere. It opens up the opportunity for conversation and for interacting with the crowd.
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Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.
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Clean hearts and healthful food, exercise, early sleep and fresh air, wholesome recreation and meditation combined with optimism that comes from fighting for the right and knowing you'll eventually win for keeps - this is the tonic every true Christian patriot needs and deserves.
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Once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there is no longer any 'if' or 'but'.
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Not an inch of the land belongs to you, but every inch could easily imprison you.
