Ai Weiwei Quotes

Nothing. Jail is about nothing. Completely blank.

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• I'm an American citizen now, but I will always have Canadian pride.

  

  Harland Williams
  • American
  • Pride
  • Citizen

• The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• I could have easily never worked again after 'Precious.' I could be back at my receptionist job and no one would be surprised, but I'm having a very crazy little career that no one thought would happen. Although that was never the plan.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Job
  • Career
  • Crazy

• Before vampires were aesthetically appealing, they were physical anomalies and ostracized outsiders whom we banished to the dark, and they didn't have the appeal that they do now.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Dark
  • Now
  • Physical

• When you do a lot of acting your entire life, you see the entire set from one point of view. To have a chance to step back and pull it all together is really exciting. You want to do it all; you want to have a hand in everything.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Life
  • Together
  • Hand

• Now that we have a bit of money, it is nice to get gifts for people. Before I was getting and not really giving.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • People
  • Money
  • Giving

• Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life - one that requires much professionalism.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Life
  • Music
  • Professionalism

• Our nation of immigrants is, tautologically, a nation of emigrants.

  

  Balaji Srinivasan
  • Nation
  • Immigrants
  • Our

• Like in those cancer villages, a group of old ladies kneeling down in front of me, you know, holding a bottle of polluted water and hoping that they would get help, this is the voice that got drowned in this complex, globalized supply chain system.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Help
  • Water
  • Voice

• Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don't pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Good
  • Music
  • Personality

• I suppose the worst case scenario is that people will get to the point where they can't actually afford to make what they want to make creatively. The industry is collapsing.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Want
  • Worst

• The Baha'i celebrity, or the Belebrity, is a character actor with a big head playing an annoying creep on a TV show.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Character
  • Actor
  • Celebrity

• I love Paul Rudd.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Paul

• I went through a soul-searching period. I went to a place that was a little bit more reflective and dark. I began to look at who I am, who I was, where I come from, what my culture is, and who I am as an African-American person in America.

  

  Usher
  • America
  • Culture
  • Dark

• First lady has been a thankless position. Eleanor Roosevelt was brilliant and had strong views. She was criticized for her politics and for her appearance. Mrs. Roosevelt was attacked for being too involved in politics. Bess Truman was criticized for being uninvolved in politics.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • She
  • Strong
  • Politics

• How short life is for fools.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life

• The fear was all he had left, but even that was something-he was afraid, so he must be alive! There was darkness, but there was Simon, too! There were not one and the same. Not yet. Not quite...

  

  Tad Williams
  • Fear

• We are the boysThat fear no noiseWhere the thundering cannons roar.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Fear

• And three lucky stones strung on a wire to keep the house safe.

  

  Annie Proulx
  • House

• Since January 2003, at the height of the debate on the possible unilateral strike against Iraq, I have advocated for a reinstatement of the military draft to ensure a more equitable representation of people making sacrifices in wars in which the United States is engaged.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • People
  • Military

• I was the only one silly enough to carry it on to the professional level, but I would say most of my family - and my extended family - are storytellers. And really, that's just what acting is.

  

  Genevieve O'Reilly
  • Family
  • Professional
  • Silly

• Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Future
  • Political
  • France

• I still have a lot to learn about what the love of Christ is like - that it's not just knowledge... but it's allowing the truth to change you - allowing Christ's message of grace and hope and love through the cross, that that message is the message that changes the way we look at everything in our lives.

  

  Ben Zobrist
  • Truth
  • Hope
  • Knowledge

• Nothing. Jail is about nothing. Completely blank.

  

  Ai Weiwei