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"This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years. People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China's relationship with the outside world."

Ai Weiwei on Relationship

More quotes about Relationship

  • "You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete."

    Keith Sweat on Relationship

  • "Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul."

    Mahatma Gandhi on Relationship

  • "One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."

    Euripides on Relationship

  • "Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods."

    Denis Waitley on Relationship

  • "You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."

    Epicurus on Relationship

More quotes by Ai Weiwei

  • "To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's 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."

  • "I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture."

  • "The 'Bird's 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."

  • "Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product it's an understanding of human nature."

  • "I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture."

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