Ai Weiwei Quotes
Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man.
Ai Weiwei
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
Samantha Power
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As most actors/actresses, I don't like to watch my own movies, either, and I never look at the dailys while filming.
Cameron Bright
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
Samantha Power
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
Sam Levenson
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
Salman Rushdie
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If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if folk music means music for the people, and playing music to entertain them and share different messages, then sure, I'd like to think that I'm part folk singer.
Langhorne Slim
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I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.
R. A. Salvatore
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
Pam Dawber
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I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale.
Queen Rania of Jordan
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
A. S. Byatt
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If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
Candice Swanepoel
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My spiritual evolution I would describe as journey from literalism to figuratism. I now see all religious texts as pointing to an ineffable truth.
Maggie Rowe
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Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.
Salman Rushdie
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
Naomi Wolf
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Princess Diana was a nice dancer because she had confidence. In fact, when we danced together she started to lead, and I looked her in eye and went, 'No, you have to let me lead.' So I grabbed her around the waist and we were off to the races.
John Travolta
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It is not by the absolute quantity of produce obtained by either class, that we can correctly judge of the rate of profit, rent, and wages, but by the quantity of labour required to obtain that produce.
David Ricardo
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All great poets have been men of great knowledge.
William Cullen Bryant
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Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man.
Ai Weiwei
