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
  • Years
  • Thought

• 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 think the NBA will certainly survive without Michael Jordan.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Think
  • Survive
  • Without

• 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

• The broad-backed hippopotamusRests on his belly in the mud;Although he seems so firm to usHe is merely flesh and blood.

  

  T. S. Eliot

• When they were growing up, I was working from morning to night. When I left, they were asleep, when I came back, they were asleep,' once he told a magazine. Even when they were young, he couldn't visit their school as Shweta and Abhishek asked him not to visit them to avoid too much commotion

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • Up
  • School
  • Night

• You can't live a positive life with a negative mind and if you have a positive outcome you have a positive income and just to have more positivity and just to kind of laugh it off.

  

  Miley Cyrus
  • Life
  • Live
  • Mind

• All-American' looks very different today than it did twenty years ago, and I felt that that wasn't being reflected. For better or for worse, young girls get their idea of what is beautiful from the pages of magazines. And so when an Indian girl looks in Seventeen and sees a girl from her background smiling back at her, that sends her a message that she is beautiful.

  

  Atoosa Rubenstein
  • Girl
  • Idea
  • Magazines

• Right now my mind is on the people who stole our instruments, and, specifically, the person with my guitar, which will no doubt end its days having Green Day songs worked out on it. A better fate was deserved - and while the reverence given to guitars annoys me, I shall miss it.

  

  Jonny Greenwood Radiohead
  • People
  • Mind
  • Doubt

• Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.

  

  Ellis Peters
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

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

  

  Ai Weiwei