Ai Weiwei Quotes
China might seem quite successful in its controls, but it has only raised the water level. It’s like building a dam: it thinks there is more water so it will build higher. But every drop of water is still in there. It doesn’t understand how to let the pressure out. It builds up a way to maintain control and push the problem to the next generation.
Quotes to Explore
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Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.
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Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.
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My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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A lot of people think that to make it as a model you just need to be pretty and slim, but they're wrong. There's a lot of hard work involved. You have to be very focused, know what kind of work you're aiming for.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.
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Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.
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I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.
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That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.
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My grandma's into music. My mom is a singer. Even my sister is a much better singer than I am. So you could say music runs in the family.
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China might seem quite successful in its controls, but it has only raised the water level. It’s like building a dam: it thinks there is more water so it will build higher. But every drop of water is still in there. It doesn’t understand how to let the pressure out. It builds up a way to maintain control and push the problem to the next generation.
