Ai Weiwei Quotes
Tradition is only a readymade. It’s for us to make a new gesture-to use it as a reference, more as a starting point than conclusion. Of course, there are very different attitudes and interpretations about our past and our memory of it. And ours is never a complete one, but is broken. In China, but also in my practice.
Ai Weiwei
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Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
J. D. Hayworth
All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
V. S. Naipaul
When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
Laura Carmichael
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Madeleine Albright
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Odell Beckham, Jr.
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Chris Cornell
Soundgarden
I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.
Lech Walesa
We laughed ourselves silly, taking back our shared past, gently, piece by piece.
Sarah Dessen
Tradition is only a readymade. It’s for us to make a new gesture-to use it as a reference, more as a starting point than conclusion. Of course, there are very different attitudes and interpretations about our past and our memory of it. And ours is never a complete one, but is broken. In China, but also in my practice.
Ai Weiwei