Ai Weiwei Quotes
I don’t feel powerful at all. I am still under this kind of detention, and you know, this is kind of a bail. Even yesterday I realized while trying to take care of the baby, at the park, I had been secretly followed and it’s quite fragile. Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
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I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.
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If you want to buy $10 of Ethereum and poke around with smart contracts, I encourage that. But use it as a technology, not as an investment, unless you know what you're doing.
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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
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I think young adults get a bad rap for being self-absorbed and self-centered. My experience going around the United States and speaking in schools is that teenagers here are very interested in the fate of their peers around the world.
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It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.
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Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing.
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As anyone who has recently seen PG-13 movies knows, the level of violence in them has increased to the point of making the Motion Picture Association of America's voluntary rating system meaningless.
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It never crossed my mind to be a director, and I'll tell you why: because I'm a woman. It just didn't occur to me, but I knew I had to be in film.
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But You never reject a repentant and humble heart.
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To develop patience, you need someone who willfully hurts you. Such people give us real opportunities to practice tolerance. They test our inner strength in a way that even our guru cannot. Basically, patience protects us from being discouraged.
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The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and drama?ridicule and reproach?pleading and persuasion.
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It's no use trying to be clever-we are all clever here; just try to be kind-a little kind.
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I wanted to find out why I wasn't getting off on what I was doing and try and make some sense out of the evolution of it.
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I don’t feel powerful at all. I am still under this kind of detention, and you know, this is kind of a bail. Even yesterday I realized while trying to take care of the baby, at the park, I had been secretly followed and it’s quite fragile. Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
