"I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom"

-- Ai Weiwei

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“Anyone who loves music can never be quite unhappy.”
“ISIS goes after any group that deviates from its extreme ideology, dissident Muslims, for example, or the Yazidis who practice an ancient religion distinct from both Islam and Christianity.”
“There is a resentment and rejection of liberal culture. That culture is not available to many people in America. And the liberal coastal elite, who may never have been to rural America, just think everyone there is racist and homophobic and judge them to be terrible people. They think there is nothing wrong to be making jokes about 'meth heads', who are actually a group of people with poverty-related drug issues. They don't see their own hypocrisy. I think this is a huge issue and one that cannot be ignored.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Other than to amuse himself, why should a man pretend to know where he's going or understand what he sees?”
“Woe to those who get what they desire. Fulfillment leaves an empty space where your old self used to be, the self that pines and broods and reflects. You furnish a dream house in your imagination, but how startling and final when that dream house is your own address. What is left to you? Surrounded by what you wanted, you feel a sense of amputation. The feelings you were used to abiding with are useless. The conditions you established for your happiness are met. That youthful light-headed feeling whose sharp side is much like hunger is of no more use to you.”
“There are three components to that purpose, one is to find out who you really are, to discover God, the second is to serve other human beings.”
“Ideally if I settled down with a wife I would love to form my own troupe of mini dancers!”
“SETI is probably the most important quest of our time , and it amazes me that governments and corporations are not supporting it sufficiently.”

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