"They all ask: Why? Why is it that this man’s name [Ai Weiwei] can never be typed on a Chinese computer or the whole sentence will disappear?"
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Ai Weiwei, interview by Christiane Amanpour, CNN. YouTube video, uploaded by asianrapworldwide, March 21, 2010. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyAeLmN_UjA; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCgo6b6bqqQ&feature=relatedAi Weiwei
"During my detention, they kept asking me: Ai Weiwei, what is the reason you have become like this today? My answer is: First, I refuse to forget. My parents, my family, their whole generation and my generation all paid a great deal in the struggle for freedom of speech. Many people died just because of one sentence or even one word. Somebody has to take responsibility for that."
Ai Weiwei
"Nothing. Jail is about nothing. Completely blank. — “Ai Weiwei: ‘Shame on Me.’” Part 2: “Do They Want Me to Leave?” Der Spiegel, November 21, 2011. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/ai-weiwei-shame-on-me-a-799302-2.html
Ai Weiwei
That doesn't make any sense. Sorry. There's no known way of saying an English sentence in which you begin a sentence with "in" and emphasize it. Get me a jury and show me how you can say "In July" and I'll go down on you. That's just idiotic, if you'll forgive me by saying so. That's just stupid... "In July"; I'd love to know how you emphasize "In" in "In July". Impossible! Meaningless!
Orson Welles
We could walk into a Chinese restaurant right here in Chicago. And the waiter could have been born here, raised here, went to college here, he has never left the city limits. I'm the idiot that walks in that restaurant and goes [in exaggerated Chinese] "Uh, yes. I'll have fried rice. Egg roll..." And you can see him go "I am so going to spit in your food, I swear to God." And it drives my daughter crazy. 'Cause she goes "why do you do that? That is so insulting to them!"
Bill Engvall
Chinese medicine, oh, Chinese medicine! "But there are billions of Chinese, Chinese medicine must be working." Here's the skinny on Chinese medicine. A hundred years ago the average life expectancy in China was 30. The life expectancy in China at the moment is 73. And it's not feckin' tiger penis that turned it around for the Chinese. Didn't do much for the tiger, if you don't mind me pointing out.
Dara O Briain
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