Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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I try to do my best.
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
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I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
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Being honest with you, it's not the 'great' wall of China. It's an all right wall. It's the 'All Right Wall of China.'
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I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as well - you know, the wind and the rain and the thunder. It's almost as if there's a sense of invocation in performance.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
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Teachers alone can't educate young people.
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When every card in the deck is stacked against you, the only way to win a hand is to break the rules. You beg, borrow, and steal, as the old adage goes, and if you happen to get caught in the act, at least you´ve gone down fighting the good fight.
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I think that Eleanor Roosevelt really learned about the limits of power and influence from Arthurdale. She could not make some things happen. And she particularly learned that she could not, just because she was nominally in charge, she could not change people's hearts and minds; that a very long process of education would result before race was on the national agenda. And it really did move her into the racial justice arena with both feet. She came out fighting.
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If I knew that 3D was going to be such a big deal, I would have gotten that boob job 10 years ago.
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In terms of script, Bollywood should learn from South Indian scripts. Not talking about the fights and action, I am talking about the drama bit.
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You just never know how back injuries are going to affect you.
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Anyone fighting for freedom does not want to totally lose their freedom.
