Ai Weiwei Quotes
Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man.Ai Weiwei
Quotes to Explore
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
Samantha Power -
My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
Samantha Power -
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
Sam Levenson -
When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
Salman Rushdie -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
Eddie Marsan -
My father is very dry and very quick-witted, and my mother is very silly. It was the perfect combination because I got an education in physical and verbal comedy.
T. J. Miller
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Ah... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils that's freshly picked from the field.
Kate Winslet -
I think with every part you do, you become a better actor. I've learned from my experiences on that.
Zach McGowan -
Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.
Iris Chang -
When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s.
Vanessa Carlton -
Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.
Salman Rushdie -
Some day I shall be President.
Abraham Lincoln
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Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.
Andrew Eldritch The Sisters of Mercy -
There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.
Plato -
It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.
Dan O'Brien -
We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Language kills, and inflamed rhetoric of the kind that spews almost daily from the lips of Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Mike Huckabee, and others running for public office in this country should be condemned.
Jay Parini -
Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man.
Ai Weiwei