Ai Weiwei Quotes

They know too many things they should not know and they do not know some things they need to know.

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• When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Great
  • Movies
  • Guilty

• When I represent Team GB, I never give less than 100 per cent. It is an absolute honour.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Team
  • Never
  • Give

• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Band
  • Thought
  • Years

• I started cooking out of middle school depression.

  

  Zac Posen
  • School
  • Cooking
  • Depression

• Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Books
  • Reasons
  • Explain

• I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Bad
  • Light
  • Change

• The truth is that just as the 'West' is not a homogenous entity with one view on foreign and domestic policy, nor are Muslims.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Truth
  • View
  • Truth Is

• I used to feel very lonely on the team. The boys would all pair up.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Up
  • Team
  • Feel

• We must make the government accept that at a time when we are expected to look ahead, we cannot afford to start discriminating against our own people in the name of 'ethos.'

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • People
  • Time
  • Government

• I think I would have done very well as a writer in the Forties. I think the last time America was a great country was then or not long after. It was before Vietnam, before Watergate.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• I don't want to see that two-tier Senegal, that two-tier Africa, when you have those at the top and those at the bottom, people who are hungry, people who do not have enough to eat.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Want
  • Hungry

• I finally, you know, moved to Mexico City, where the film industry is. I started working there as a producer, which is a very, very valid thing for women to do, because we always produce for men, right?

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Men
  • Women
  • City

• I never have cakes or biscuits. I don't have a sweet tooth at all, and I can't stand chocolates - I find them so sickly. However, I will buy cakes if I'm expecting company.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Sweet
  • Company
  • Stand

• I mix everything up. A museum curator once said to me that there is a great jazz component to the way I do things because good jazz is improvisation and draws elements from all different cultures. And that's the way I do everything - the way I dress and decorate.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• Since I was a child, my father was sick. I've always known him to be that way. That's why I'm proud of him - he has a disease he's obviously struggling with, but he's not letting it stop him from doing what he wants to do.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Why
  • Father
  • Stop

• My mother is still battling alcoholism.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Mother
  • Still
  • Battling

• Good people all, with one acord,Lament for Madame Blaize,Who never wanted a good word —From those who spoke her praise.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • People
  • Good

• One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Ego

• Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life, The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!

  

  Lord Byron
  • Life
  • Clouds
  • Rainbow

• I'm not always as disciplined as I should be. I don't sit down and write every day, but I should.

  

  Jenny Lewis

• Taking care of myself used to be at the bottom of my list, but I'm all about wellness.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • Wellness

• Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live, and have feeling.

  

  Carl Linnaeus
  • Nature
  • Science
  • Feelings

• You have to lead your life according to your ideas. Spend all your money and live life in line with what you are fighting for. I hate it when rich people try to be Communists. I think that’s obscene.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• They know too many things they should not know and they do not know some things they need to know.

  

  Ai Weiwei