"The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens."

-- Ai Weiwei

#Responsibility Quotes #Rights Quotes #Expression Quotes

“I use an Arnold Palmer putter that was probably built back in 1954.”
“Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.”
“Do you love him?" There were only a few people in the world who could ask me such insanely personal questions without getting punched. Dimitri was one of them.”
“I hope the Spice Girls will come back, although it may be beyond even Bob Geldof to get that to happen.”
“Both the 18th and the early 20th centuries, however, feature brilliant attacks on originality, and it's no doubt one of the hallmarks of romanticism to care about originality and suppose with a sometimes naive spontaneity that it's all that matters.”
“People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.”
“Advice is like a doctor's pills; how easily he gives them! how reluctantly he takes them when his turn comes!”
“Some people start modeling because they want to be models and they want the parties and the recognition, and then there are people like me. I come from a simple family, and for me getting into modeling was a chance to make money and create a business.”

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