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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I was on a TV show about dancers for two and a half seasons called 'Bunheads' on ABC Family, and that was really fun for me because I'm a dancer in a real life.
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Last time I checked, Congress was created to uphold the values of the Constitution, not the Bible and its biased teachings. 'All men (including women) are created equal' and are afforded unalienable rights. Way to go, Mr. President! Stand up for what you believe and for the people of this country.
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I wrote the first version of this book in 1996, in the closing years of the twentieth century. Now, almost two decades into the twenty-first, it seems we are still struggling with what W. E. B. Du Bois identified in 1906 as the “problem of the color line,” even though the demographic composition of that color line has changed quite a bit since then.
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You can always turn a bad kisser into a good one.
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Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person's thoughts.
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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
