Ai Weiwei Quotes
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My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.
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Nobody took you out for lunch when I started. Carla Bruni took me out for lunch once. She was really nice. Otherwise, you don't get fed.
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I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.
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The more people told me that, you know, wow, you should be so blessed. Don't you feel blessed? And you have all this – mansion and all these beautiful things. And I said, you know - the more they told me that, the more depressed I got.
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When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.
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It could get saturated or monotonous if I would do the same characters again and again. That is why, to save myself from that feeling, I take time out to choose roles that excite me.
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I was going to be the head wrangler at a ranch in Wyoming, and the reason I didn't take the job is because I couldn't have my family there - the family had to stay in town. I just wasn't willing to do that.
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Who doesn't love a 'Lifetime' movie? I think that they know their audience so well.
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.
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I am a diehard Seahawks fan because I'm born and raised in Seattle.
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Consult duty not events.
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Let us go then, you and I,When the evening is spread out against the skyLike a patient etherized upon a table.
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Please understand, I never had a secret chart to get me to the heart of this or any other matter. When he talks like this you don't know what he's after.
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Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.
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The tree the tempest with a crash of wood Throws down in front of us is not to bar. Our passage to our journey's end for good, But just to ask us who we think we are....
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True compassion is utterly neutral and is moved by suffering of every sort; not tied to right and wrong, attachment and aversion.
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I am mentally preparing myself for the five-year-old mind. I want to come down to their physical limitations and up to their sense of wonder and awe.
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I don’t see myself as a dissident artist. I see them as a dissident government!
