Ai Weiwei Quotes

If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.

Ai Weiwei

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• It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • God
  • Trying
  • Play

• Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • Moment
  • Become
  • Significance

• It's nice not to be too boring.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Nice
  • Boring
  • Too

• Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Law
  • Evil
  • Ignorance

• When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Think
  • Confidence
  • Dance

• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• I think when you suffer a tremendous loss, everybody needs love and support in tangible ways. And that's what people have done for us.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • Love
  • Done

• I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Experience
  • Satisfaction

• I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • People
  • Music
  • Day

• Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Men
  • Women
  • Myself

• I was joking with someone about this the other day. They were like, 'You talk about Applebee's as if it was your ex.' I miss it; I miss setting up tables at 6 A.M.

  

  Verite
  • Up
  • You
  • Day

• It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.

  

  Adam Derek Scott
  • Amazing
  • Win
  • Destiny

• Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Bible
  • Hell
  • Crime

• Of course I used to smile and laugh in 1976, but not when I was competing. Please show me somebody who laughs when they are concentrating; I always smiled.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Me
  • Smile
  • Laugh

• The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Movie
  • Dream
  • Lost

• But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Challenge
  • Acting
  • Loved

• The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Important
  • Create
  • Sacred

• The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Rest
  • Plan
  • Health care

• I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Fear
  • Action
  • Hands

• Mac continued to write scathing commentary on assorted hypocrisies in high places and low, without which hypocrisies, he cheerfully conceded, civilized life would be impossible.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Life
  • High

• All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • World
  • Education
  • Best

• When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Up
  • Done
  • Better

• If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Life
  • Society
  • Freedom