Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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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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When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.
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The greatest thing you can give a child is confidence.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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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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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments.
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I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
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Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.
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First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
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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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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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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 understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.
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The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.
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I've always wanted to make movies that are fever dreams.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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The first time I got paid as an actor was for 'Man of La Mancha.' So 'Don Quixote' has always been a thing for me.
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There are an infinite number of rewards you could bestow on yourself for working at your creative projects, and you deserve every one of them.
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If I had the chance to beat 16 year old me’s ass I really think I would.
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We gotta figure out a way to pay our teachers more. They're like surrogate parents away from home. They have such a huge responsibility and they're underappreciated and underpaid.
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Citizens should bear the responsibility to act.
