Ai Weiwei Quotes
I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with lots of sketches thrown in could be really fun. But you know, that may never happen. Minimally, I just want to keep making stand-up.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
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The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.
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Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
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I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery.
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Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.
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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
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Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
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My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then, when I first said I wanted to run for office, he thought that was absolutely insane.
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You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.
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On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.
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Sometimes I read a really good script, and I just know that it's not a good fit.
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I always loved playing the sidekick, and that's what I expected - I didn't think I was pretty enough or diva enough to play the lead.
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If I am writing down something and it is my idea, my imagination, it won't be fact.
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In syndication, the biggest buyers are car dealerships.
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Are you asking a question because you want to know the answer or are you asking the question because you want your partner to know that you are having this question?
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I kind of feel like people like to dump on 'Home Improvement,' and I don't know why.
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I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.
