Ai Weiwei Quotes
China is a society which forbids any flow of the information and freedom of speech. This is on record, so everybody should know this.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
Ian Mckellen
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Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.
Adam Levine Maroon 5
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
Cam Newton
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
Washington Irving
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
Rachel Platten
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The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.
Jack Dangermond
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
Carl Honore
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
Karin Slaughter
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Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.
Jack Bruce Cream
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
Salman Rushdie
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I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
Naomie Harris
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
Salman Rushdie
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You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
Ilya Ehrenburg
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The verdict of the world is conclusive.
Saint Augustine
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The country of Britain is wonderful because of its royalty.
Yayoi Kusama
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
Imran Khan
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My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.
Haile Gebrselassie
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Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
Gaston Bachelard
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You must set down all the rules to your cat at the beginning of your relationship. You cannot add rules as you go along. Once these rules are set, you must never, under any circumstances, break any of them. Dare to break a rule, and you will never live it down. Trust me.
Kathy Young
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I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.
Jane Birkin
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Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.
Nancy Gibbs
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Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
H. L. Mencken
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We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom.
Emanuel Celler
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China is a society which forbids any flow of the information and freedom of speech. This is on record, so everybody should know this.
Ai Weiwei