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

• 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

• 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

• I think I have a good deal of my Uncle Theodore in me, because I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on.

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Good
  • Age
  • Uncle

• My wife, Katey Sagal, has transformed herself from a sitcom cartoon to a dramatic powerhouse.

  

  Kurt Sutter
  • Wife

• Our social mores no longer conform to a world where nice girls wear skirts that don't cling.

  

  Christina Binkley
  • World
  • Nice

• Hey, don't be mean, 'cause remember: wherever you go. . . there you are.

  

  Earl Mac Rauch
  • Remember
  • Mean
  • Cause

• What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a pure or exact science, of course, but these phrases belong to a nineteenth-century cosmology which is no longer with us.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Criticism
  • Wells
  • Century

• I have asked a lot of my emotions-one hundred and twenty stories. The price was high, right up with Kipling, because there was one little drop of something, not blood, not a tear, not my seed, but me more intimately than these, in every story, it was the extra I had. Now it has gone and I am just like you now.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Up
  • High
  • Creativity

• Treasure each other in the recognition that we do not know how long we shall have each other.

  

  Joshua L. Liebman
  • Recognition
  • Treasure
  • Each Other

• Nothing. Jail is about nothing. Completely blank.

  

  Ai Weiwei