Ai Weiwei Quotes
I think I have this responsibility to my father’s generation, and especially future generations.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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I don't like controversy.
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The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.
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Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
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A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
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There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
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I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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I've always wanted to make movies that are fever dreams.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I am an artist who works with Lego.
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I would argue that Asean has been instrumental in driving both economic growth and political development, and that there can be no clearer example than its relations with Myanmar.
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We cannot let the bogeyman of al-Qaida and extremism be used to stall historic change in our country
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Unstable conditionA symptom of lifeIn mental and environmental changeAtmospheric disturbanceThe feverish fluxOf human interface and interchange - Vital Signs (1981)
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Everything in adulthood can be traced back to childhood.
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One of the things that I miss the most about cricket and batting in particular is that meditation of cricket, that involvement of myself - mind, body and spirit - to delivering that one specific process, which is to execute a cricket shot. It is a beautiful feeling; it is very hard to replicate.
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My father, Fred Carter, Jr., is definitely an extraordinaire.
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I think I have this responsibility to my father’s generation, and especially future generations.
