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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I am busy with my work. I am committed to Gujarat and I am dedicated to Gujarat. I never talk about my image, never spent a single minute for my image and confusions may be there.
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I raced in London in the 2012 Olympics, and it was incredible to be a part of, with half a million people watching and then later seeing kids going back to cycle.
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I think I have to expand my creativity a bit, because it's difficult for critics to be, "Oh, this person writes their own lyrics and sometimes writes their own beats and sometimes makes her own videos." They funnel me through, "Oh, is it as good as blah-blah's record, which has had 50 million writers on it?"
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As young as I look, I think it will still be funny if I played a person who's kind of tortured and hates his life. Kind of like a Larry David-type thing.
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Our thoughts are often worse than we are.
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I don’t see myself as a dissident artist. I see them as a dissident government!
