Ai Weiwei Quotes

Before blogging, I was living in the Middle Ages. Now my feelings for time and space are entirely different.

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• Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Up
  • Music
  • Different

• Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to reflect that. People say, 'Oh, it's done by 40,' and now everyone knows it's not. I actually feel like the roles are a lot more interesting.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • People
  • Different
  • Women

• I retire every time I'm done with a movie. Then I go back. You know, I enjoy sleep. But I love to work; it's fun for me. As long as it continues to be fun, and I'm tolerated by the people around me, I will do it.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• With myself, how to pass time becomes sometimes the question - unavoidably, though it strikes me as a thing unspeakably sad in a life so short as ours.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Life
  • Time
  • Question

• Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Time
  • Chance
  • Court

• I felt like an outsider. The only time you get to really know guys is on the ice, and I couldn't be there.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Time
  • Know
  • Ice

• We don't spend so much time on the opponent that we forget it's really about us.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Time
  • Forget
  • Opponent

• Time will heal everything.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Time
  • Everything
  • Will

• It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.

  

  Ferdinand Christian Baur
  • Time
  • Ideas
  • Circumstances

• Any quality player can adjust well to the different demands. It is like a good tennis player who is expected to adjust to the clay at the French Open, the grass at Wimbledon, the hard courts of the U.S. and the heat of the Australian Open. A professional is expected to do all that.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Good
  • Different
  • Quality

• I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Time
  • Family
  • Love

• God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Time
  • God
  • Chaos

• I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Alone
  • Taken
  • Picture

• I wasn't trying to fit into a thing... it was not like I was like, 'Right, I'm the Han; I'm the Leia; I'm the Luke.' I was just like, 'Okay, I'm Rey, just trying to do me, just trying to do this scene, trying to do the right thing,' and I think that was a huge advantage because I think if not, it would've been a very different thing.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Do The Right Thing

• The year that 'Lost' started and premiered was, without a doubt, the most miserable year of my life. The level of despair and anguish that I was feeling; I was clinically depressed, and anyone that you talked to who knew me at the time will tell you that.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Life
  • Time
  • Feeling

• By the time we've made it, we've had it.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Time
  • Made
  • By The Time

• We're so enamored of technological advancements that we fail to think about how to best apply those technologies to what we're trying to achieve. This can mask some very important continuities in the nature of war and their implications for our responsibilities as officers.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Important
  • Trying
  • War

• What I realised is, watching some old home videos, I've always had a weird accent. It's because I spent a lot of time on film sets. But Australia will always be home... I sound like the Qantas ad, don't I?

  

  Alice Englert
  • Time
  • Home
  • Weird

• Weekend planning is a prime time to apply the Deathbed Priority Test: On your deathbed, will you wish you'd spent more prime weekend hours grocery shopping or walking in the woods with your kids?

  

  Hal Borland
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Wish

• One time, I went to school, and they asked us all to find out where our roots were. It's goin' around the class, and the kids were going, 'I'm Swedish-German' or 'I'm English-Irish.' They got to me and I said, 'Pure Kentuckian.'

  

  John Prine
  • Time
  • School
  • Kids

• Somebody could look at me and go, 'She's dressed black,' or 'She's behaving in the stereotypical way of a black lesbian.' But this is how I feel most comfortable. This is my authentic self. I want the freedom to be that regardless of how someone interprets it.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • She
  • Black
  • Freedom

• I love my body. I take good care of it.

  

  Jimmy Graham
  • Good

• Before blogging, I was living in the Middle Ages. Now my feelings for time and space are entirely different.

  

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