Ai Weiwei Quotes
I think China is in a chaos now and it could be more chaos. It’s an orderly chaos. It’s a party that ruthlessly violates every human’s basic rights to serve its own purpose.'
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
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The stratosphere is a hostile place.
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I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.
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I don't think there is much American music.
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Breaking up is hard to do... so it's essential to keep getting wiser - and wiser - about what healthy love is all about.
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I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.
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Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.
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I never thought of being disadvantaged.
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Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.
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Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.
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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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You can't play a guy who's just a snake, because what do you draw on?
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There's something about sitting face-to-face with an attorney in an office that enables people to come to grips with the very idea of divorce - or to reconsider the idea. Like a number of my colleagues - not all - I offer that preliminary consultation for free.
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The Christian church does not need more popular preaching, but more unpopular preaching.
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However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.
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Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.
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If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.
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I think China is in a chaos now and it could be more chaos. It’s an orderly chaos. It’s a party that ruthlessly violates every human’s basic rights to serve its own purpose.'
