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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Tell me something, Raphael?" He was already turning, heading to the door. "What is it you'd like to know, Guild Hunter?" She hid her smile at his slip. "What do I call you? Husband? Mate? Boyfriend?" Stopping with his hand on the doorknob, he shot her an inscrutable look. "You can call me 'Master'.
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One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.
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The Iranian government still denies the Holocaust - so you can't take them seriously. And the Israeli government spreads rumours and disinformation about Iran - because it needs to for the creation of panic. I find these theological states - and in this respect, Israel and Iran are twin brothers - very, very dangerous.
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It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets.
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This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need of conscious observation. In this respect at least the pupil makes himself independent of all conscious purpose.
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I don’t see myself as a dissident artist. I see them as a dissident government!
