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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Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.
Charles Barkley -
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
A. A. Milne -
Mentors don't just have to be people who are older or more experienced than you are. Mentors are people who really care about you, know you, and want to offer feedback and advice to help you grow.
Jennifer Hyman -
Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
Carli Lloyd -
My personal style really started in my teens when I gained purchasing power to actually buy my own damn clothes. For so long, my parents dictated what I wore, which largely was their way of containing me within the gender binary.
Janet Mock -
Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man.
Ai Weiwei