Ai Weiwei Quotes
Twitter is the people’s tool, the tool of the ordinary people, people who have no other resources.Ai Weiwei
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
G. H. Hardy -
I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
Eberhard Weber -
It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
Ian McLagan Small Faces -
America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
Walter Dean Myers -
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 -
It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
Saint Ignatius
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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
W. S. Merwin -
I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
Tatyana Ali -
I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
Eddie Marsan -
We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
Ted Chiang -
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
Fidel Castro -
Broader social concerns within Muslim communities, such as discrimination, integration or socio-economic disadvantages, should be treated distinctively and not as part of counterterrorism agenda, which has been counter-productive.
Maajid Nawaz
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I'm used to being part of 'Game of Thrones' and going into something where you're a small part of something else. You don't want to hold anything up because they've got such a well-oiled machine going.
Maisie Williams -
People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
Aaron Paul -
I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
Young Jeezy -
By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
Cameron Mackintosh -
A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
When you have a celebrity who is willing to shine his personal spotlight on the non-profit and can also speak articulately about the mission, that's really the best of both worlds.
Adam Braun
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I don't think Russia will follow the United States's way. I don't think Russia will follow the French way. I'm sure Russia will find its own way.
Anatoly Chubais -
The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.
Pierre de Coubertin -
Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.
Anna Deavere Smith -
Surround yourself with people and things that inspire you. Learn everything you can.
Jameela Jamil -
Twitter is the people’s tool, the tool of the ordinary people, people who have no other resources.
Ai Weiwei