Evan Osnos There’s a reason the Chinese government is very concerned about Ai Weiwei. It’s because he has all of these ingredients in his life that allow him to attract enormous attention across a very broad spectrum of the population. – Evan Osnos Attention Quotes Attract Quotes Broad Quotes Chinese Quotes Concerned Quotes Enormous Quotes Government Quotes Ingredients Quotes Life Quotes Population Quotes Reason Quotes Spectrum Quotes Weiwei Quotes On some level, there’s a limit to what the government really worries about when it comes to a guy like Ai Weiwei, who’s talking to a limited audience of people. He’s talking to people who more or less already agree with him. There’s a tradition in the history of dissent in authoritarian countries of a certain kind of dissident, and their form of dissent is to live their lives as normally as possible.
E P Thompson The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn’t seem to be real at all. – E P Thompson
FoodGeorge Miller The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you’re hungry again. – George Miller
Cyrus Broacha Unless you are wealthy, you cannot afford to act or direct one play and remain unemployed the rest of the time. – Cyrus Broacha
John Lothrop Motley A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind. – John Lothrop Motley
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