Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I know what to do and I go and execute.
Usain Bolt -
I love to cook. I could never give that up.
Kate Winslet -
I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo -
If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
Zubin Mehta -
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
Vannevar Bush
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Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.
Baba Kalyani -
Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
Gary Ackerman -
I used to hate working out - until I learned how to do it properly.
Rachel Nichols -
I believe the record I was allowed to help establish by the side of the president was important.
Rahm Emanuel -
It is a struggle. But I don't mind. I will just keep fighting on.
J. T. Walsh -
I had a house in Haiti, in the hills above the North Atlantic coast. The house appeared as if out of a dream: my dream to have a foothold in the country. Like many concepts do in Haiti, the phrase 'pied a terre' became literal, material.
Madison Smartt Bell
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Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
G. M. Trevelyan -
Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
E. M. Forster -
I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs.
B. B. King -
I'm actually a very shy person. You'd be surprised how many leaders are shy. They're not all extroverts by nature.
Larry Harvey -
I am a sandwich man. Somewhere early in life, my epigenetic switches got flicked to 'likes sandwiches,' and that's where they still are. I suspect it's at least in part because they're easy to eat while reading.
Tad Williams -
In such green palaces the first kings reign'd,Slept in their shades, and angels entertain'd;With such old counsellors they did advise,And by frequenting sacred groves grew wise.
Edmund Waller
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People ask me if I ever get sick of playing 'Daydream Believer' or whatever. But I don't look at it that way. Do they ask if Tony Bennett is tired of 'I Left My Heart in San Francisco?'
Davy Jones The Monkees -
Even Toni Morrison claiming Bill Clinton as 'black' could not prepare us for the election of America's first undeniably black president, Barack Obama.
Kevin Young -
The threat from radical Islam is real.
Darryl Glenn -
We don't just want what we want because we want it; we want what we want because that's what we've learned to want.
Hanne Blank -
The Internet is the best thing that could have happened to China.
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