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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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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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 went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I would be a teacher, but I didn't really think about it in any practical way.
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So you don't speak English, you have no ID, you can't tell where you're from... that's suspicion, it's lower than probable cause. And then we have a right to call immigration and check you out.
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People are afraid to be themselves because people are afraid to be recorded. Everything is being recorded, and everyone is so sensitive. You say something; a section of people will be offended. It's so annoying; you got to be completely censored.
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Dogs who live in each other's company are calm and pragmatic, never showing the desperate need to make known their needs and feelings or to communicate their observations, as some hysterical dogs who know only the company of our species are likely to do.
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I'm a traditionalist. I'm a Latin mass Catholic, and I hold to traditional views of responsibility.
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I think I have this responsibility to my father’s generation, and especially future generations.
