Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
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My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.
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Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
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Stay away from the sun and remember the skin on a woman's neck, hands and face is sensitive and ages easily, so apply a high SPF sunscreen on those areas.
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I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.
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For economist the real world is often a special case.
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When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.
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I grew up with the idea of the cyborg and the robot, but at the same time I felt this intense disconnection between the things I was engaged with and inspired by in terms of fun and play. It seemed like paintings and drawings were so static.
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Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
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My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.
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I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.
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I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.
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You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.
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Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low.
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I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity.
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My gayness became quietly accepted and, shock of all shocks, life went on.
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The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.
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My confidence can come back very quickly.
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So let us not be petty when our cause is so great. Let us not quarrel amongst ourselves when our Nation’s future is at stake.
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Comics day came and went. Another shoes day came and went. And another comics day followed that - the typical production and consumption cycles that help us survice our dismal, meaningless little lives.
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Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk!
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I tried heroin just the once. Even then, I didn't realize I'd taken it. I was just handed something, smoked it, then found out what it was. It didn't do anything for me, which was lucky because I wouldn't have fancied heading down that road.
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Every day I think, this will be the day I get taken in again . . . .
