Ai Weiwei Quotes

Every day I think, this will be the day I get taken in again . . . .

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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.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Insurance
  • Been
  • Medical

• 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.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Why
  • Parents
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• 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.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Remember
  • High
  • Woman

• 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.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Real
  • Personality

• For economist the real world is often a special case.

  

  Edgar Fiedler
  • World
  • Real
  • Special

• When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Man
  • You
  • Battle

• 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.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Fun

• 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.

  

  Orrin Hatch
  • People
  • Up
  • Culture

• My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Music
  • Country
  • Growing

• 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.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Son
  • Existence
  • Wealth

• I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.

  

  Barbara Cook
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Thought

• You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Character
  • You
  • Either

• 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.

  

  Parris Glendening
  • Water
  • Depression
  • Table

• I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Like
  • Catholic
  • Point

• 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.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • Mean
  • Evil
  • Same

• My gayness became quietly accepted and, shock of all shocks, life went on.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Life
  • Accepted
  • Shock

• The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.

  

  Ian Schrager
  • Time
  • Music
  • Kid

• It feels really sad, to me, to go to a dark bedroom. It's like surrendering to the night or something.

  

  James Franco
  • Night
  • Dark
  • Sad

• Chris O'Dowd is a very special talent. He's one of those very, very rare actors who can be the clown, or he can be the straight man playing off the clown, in a scene.

  

  Jim Piddock

• By 2007, an uncompetitive, bloated, over-borrowed and distorted Irish economy had been left at the mercy of subsequent international events without the safeguards, institutions, and mindset needed to survive and prosper as a small open economy inside the euro area.

  

  Enda Kenny
  • Small
  • Irish
  • Mercy

• God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.

  

  Barbara Lynn
  • Life
  • God
  • Mother

• Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never. It's pointless and stupid and there's only suffering and pain and people who want to hurt you. You can't love nothing or no one cuz it'll all be taken away or ruined and you'll be left alone and constantly having to fight, constantly having to run just to stay alive.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • People
  • Life
  • Alone

• Every day I think, this will be the day I get taken in again . . . .

  

  Ai Weiwei
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