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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In my opinion it is harmful to place important things in the hands of philanthropy, which in Russia is marked by a chance character. Nor should important matters depend on leftovers, which are never there. I would prefer that the government treasury take care of it.
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If I see one side of somebody, I want to see the other side.
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The gateway to freedom...was somewhere close to New Orleans where most Africans were sorted through and sold. I had driven through New Orleans on tour and I'd been told my great grandfather had lived way back up in the woods among the evergreens in a log cabin. I revived the era with a song about a coloured boy named Johnny B. Goode. My first thought was to make his life follow as my own had come along, but I thought it would seem biased to white fans to say 'coloured boy' and changed it to 'country boy'.
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I do find the sight of small children eating very moving. Watch the way their tiny fingers clamp the cutlery. The exaggeratedly precise way they move cups or glasses to their lips.
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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
