Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.
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I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously before I throw something that serious in their face.
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I'm re-teaming with the producers of 'Twilight,' whom I love and who I have an amazing relationship with.
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
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I think when I first started cycling, it wasn't that popular with kids. I felt almost embarrassed going down the road on my road bike; I didn't want my friends to see me because it was embarrassing.
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Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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We've sold over 100,000 records so far, and we're an independent label.
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I am definitely a worrier.
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I felt disconnected from the decisions made in Washington and, to be honest, really didn't think my vote mattered because I didn't have a direct line of sight from my vote to a result.
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The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.
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We were racing at circuits where there were no crash barriers in front of the pits, and fuel was lying about in churns in the pit lane. A car could easily crash into the pits at any time. It was ridiculous.
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We eat pretty healthy foods, and I've taught my kids since they were little about knocking out trans fats.
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A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
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When I did 'Frankenstein,' the record company said, 'Now you can do 'Dracula' and 'Wolf Man' and we'll call the whole thing Monster Rock!' and I said, 'No, that's not going to happen, I'm not going to do that.' I kind of enjoy defying categorization. I love music in and of itself. I love the beauty of harmony and rhythm.
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I thought I saw him for what he was-or what I thought he was. And he was talented, no doubt about that. But, he thought his talent was based on misery and that if he became happy it would just go. He believed that.
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I think it's really important to live in the moment.
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I love drama - mum calls me a Drama Queen!
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I've been jailed once, put in police lock-up twice, and was under house arrest twice.
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Our legal system, including the police, is anti-Dalit and anti-poor. The death penalty laws' wrathful majesty, in blood-shot equality, deals the fatal blow on the poor not the rich, the pariah not the brahmin, the black not the white, the underdog not the top dog, the dissenter not the conformist. . . The law barks at all but bites only the poor, the powerless, the illiterate, the ignorant.
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I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They're really fun, I want to make more of them definitely.
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I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.
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Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.