Ai Weiwei Quotes
My activism is a part of me. If my art has anything to do with me, then my activism is part of my art.Ai Weiwei
Quotes to Explore
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I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.
L'Wren Scott -
It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
Zadie Smith -
'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
I put my friends and family first. I'm really just a normal thirteen-year-old girl who has a different hobby than most girls my age. Acting is kind of an extracurricular activity.
Natasha Calis -
I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
I don't think it's good for people to know too much about you. With my favourite bands, I don't want to have the inside track on every single aspect of their personal lives.
Oliver Sim The xx
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
Rachel Platten -
One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.
H. P. Lovecraft -
I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
Sam Shepard -
In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
Nancy Pelosi -
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
Warren Bennis -
Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
Walter Annenberg
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The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.
Ian Lustick -
I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.
Patricia Polacco -
Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.
Sam Sheppard -
The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
H. Rap Brown -
In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.
Ed O'Neill -
I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
Malik Jackson
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I really do think of it in moral terms. I think that we can't kid ourselves that the storytelling impulse is innocent and does nothing but bring good to the world.
Lynn Coady -
When I design, I think about the desire someone might have for it and why. I want them to fall in love with it.
Jenny Packham -
The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.
Pat Conroy -
I loved writing about things when I was excited about them. It's not fun writing about bad movies. I used to think it was bad for my skin. It's painful writing about the bad things in an art form, particularly when young kids are going to be enthusiastic about those things, because they haven't seen anything better, or anything different.
Pauline Kael -
The beauty of the literary art, the grappling with the black church, the wrestling with one's identity in the bosom of a complicated black community that was both bulwark to the larger white society as well as a threshing ground, so to speak, to hash out the differences that black people have among ourselves.
Michael Eric Dyson -
My activism is a part of me. If my art has anything to do with me, then my activism is part of my art.
Ai Weiwei