Ai Weiwei Quotes
Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
Ai Weiwei
Quotes to Explore
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Well, I'm a Texas boy, and we have denim in our blood.
Caleb Landry Jones
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To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity.
Babasaheb
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There are so many songs that I could not sing the way I wanted to. When such songs come on television or radio, I shut them off or leave the room.
Lata Mangeshkar
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Nobody really knows anybody completely, even if they've been married to 'em for 53 years, you know?
Viggo Mortensen
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The funny thing is that I'm the girl who no one sees at the beach. Ask anyone who's traveled with me. Normally, I'm in so many layers, I look like Lawrence of Arabia!
Vera Wang
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I was a science fiction geek. That lets you know that they come in all sizes and styles, right?
Mae Jemison
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'Then he was wrong to have been born at all. Cheek- eek-eek-eek, oo, hoo!' chuckled Rinkitink, his fat body shaking with merriment. 'But it's hard to prevent oneself from being born; there's no chance for protest, eh, Bilbil?'
L. Frank Baum
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As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.
Edward Abbey
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Historians whose profession is to study the past, are as wary as scientists of the idea that events unfold in a manner that can be predicted. In fact, in a study of history the illusion of inevitability has serious consequences that it is one of the few things that both conservative and socialist historians can agree on.
Leonard Mlodinow
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Deep down in Louisiana close to New Orleans Way back up in the woods among the evergreens There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood Where lived a country boy named Johnny B. Goode Who never ever learned to read or write so well But he could play the guitar just like a ringing a bell. Go, go, Go, Johnny go...
Chuck Berry
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As a gay man in Hollywood, I certainly understand what it means to be in it but not of it, to be marginalized at times and kept out of certain clubs.
Matt Bomer
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What we are doing is, rather than living on the interest of our basic biological capital, we're using up our capital, so we're dipping into our capital. We're using up what should be our children's and grandchildren's legacy.
David Suzuki
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I just tried to give somebody a chance to catch it. He almost caught it.
Jason White
Green Day
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Until we are free to think for ourselves, our dreams are not free to unfold.
Nancy Kline
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What is it to enjoy life? Sit at the beach? No. What it is is that you have to do something, you have be productive, make a contribution to the society, to the family, to yourself.
Frank Lowy
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Nobody's going to say hello to me in the street, really, because there'll be someone a bit more famous coming along the street in a minute. That typifies London, really.
Ken Stott
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I was sheltered, and there's good and bad to that. The good was not getting into the drugs and the alcohol and the really sorry stuff, and the bad was finally coming out into the real world and trying to deal with it, which was hard for me.
Janet Jackson
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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
Ai Weiwei
