Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
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I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?
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The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.
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I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.
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I have never had personal debt and never will.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.
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I love going to theatres and seeing honest little indie films I know nothing about... being surprised by a beautiful film I had no expectations about but just got lost in. I'd like to do more well-written indies. I don't know exactly what my dream role will be yet, but it's somewhere within that realm.
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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
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I found L.A. much less responsive to the name Juilliard than New York was. In New York, that name actually means something. People will look up from their desks when you walk in. In L.A. it's, 'Oh yeah, that's a music school. What do you play?'
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
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I've often felt I've been born out of my time, and when I started Fairground Attraction in the 1980s, I wanted to be a 1940s jazz singer.
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In the future, you won't buy artists' works; you'll buy software that makes original pieces of 'their' works, or that recreates their way of looking at things. You could buy a Shostakovich box, or you could buy a Brahms box. You might want some Shostakovich slow-movement-like music to be generated. So then you use that box.
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I was born and grew up in Palm Springs. It's a great place to grow up, a real small town.
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To me Art's subject is the human clay, / And landscape but a background to a torso; / All Cezanne's apples I would give away / For one small Goya or a Daumier.
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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
