Ai Weiwei Quotes
People have said, if you leave, you may never come back. Or they may not even let you leave. So this is always a cost you may have to pay. But I don’t want to restrict myself: When it happens, it happens. I have to deal with it, but not to prepare for it, because it is a kind of stupidity. If you prepare for it too much, you become a part of it.
Quotes to Explore
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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We need a reasonable price where producers will not start nagging. At a reasonable price, we can invest to produce more oil.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.
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We call ourselves a dog's 'master' - but who ever dared to call himself the 'master' of a cat? We own a dog - he is with us as a slave and inferior because we wish him to be. But we entertain a cat - he adorns our hearth as a guest, fellow-lodger, and equal because he wishes to be there.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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Where 'Dragon Quest Monsters' originated from was 'Dragon Quest V,' where you had a monster befriending system as a main part: you could actually befriend monsters and have them fight on behalf of your party, as part of your party.
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I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.
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It was never my intention to hurt people's feelings.
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You don't restore 'The Last Supper' by filling in the missing bits - you preserve. You accept the material that has somehow survived.
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I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try to simplify it. I like to give people hints or words that make visual pictures for them.
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People who are burdened by acute misgivings about their coping capabilities suffer much distress and expend much effort in defensive action . . . they cannot get themselves to do things they find subjectively threatening even though they are objectively safe. They may even shun easily manageable activities because they see them as leading to more threatening events over which they will be unable to exercise adequate control.
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People have said, if you leave, you may never come back. Or they may not even let you leave. So this is always a cost you may have to pay. But I don’t want to restrict myself: When it happens, it happens. I have to deal with it, but not to prepare for it, because it is a kind of stupidity. If you prepare for it too much, you become a part of it.
