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The American experience influenced my understanding of individuali

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

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The Birds Nest National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of fair competition. It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength. – Ai Weiwei

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Courage
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To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. Its a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works. – Ai Weiwei

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architecture
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Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because its not a product its an understanding of human nature. – Ai Weiwei

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design
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There are people hell-bent on the idea that were a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. Its simply about life experience. – Amy Lee

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Experience

I cant control what people think. Im not trying to manipulate peoples thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. Its machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different. – Mos Def

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Experience

I dont want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something thats under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile. – Danny Boyle

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Experience

Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who youre working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience. – Martin Scorsese

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Experience

Random Quotes

Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so. – Estelle Morris

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Failure

My number one goal was not getting As – and I proved it. I was a C student. You have to be ready to learn. If youre not interesting in learning, it doesnt work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier. – Brian Lamb

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Learning

A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. – George Orwell

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Family

All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite. – Charles Sanders Peirce

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Evolution