Ai Weiwei Quotes
Neither fairness nor justice, neither reality nor humanity can be simulated or manipulated by wires or remote controls.Ai Weiwei
Quotes to Explore
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
Damien Chazelle -
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
Oscar Wilde -
Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
Gail Simmons -
The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.
Fatema Mernissi -
I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
Indra Nooyi -
What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
Edmund Phelps -
Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'
Saint Basil -
We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
Larry Dixon -
The Arab spring that began in 2010 was driven by the educated youth who were connected to the outside world. They had visions of liberal politics derived from social networks. They used innovative means to spread awareness and to network among activists.
Wadah Khanfar -
In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
Ferran Adria -
Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
Carine Roitfeld
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
L. E. Modesitt -
I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.
Natalie Babbitt -
My hope is that shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' open the door for even more of those kinds of characters for Asian actors and actresses.
Randall Park -
I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.
Karl Rove -
All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.
Maimonides -
I love Mount Fuji and I think it is my love of the mountains in Japan that led me to seek other mountains around the world.
Tamae Watanabe
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See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.
H. Rap Brown -
I think that the corporation is running it and will always make it appeal to the lowest common denominator. I think we're going to have to forget about the radio and just go back to word of mouth.
Joe Strummer The Clash -
In the past, whistleblowers have had their desks moved to break rooms, broom closets, and basements. It's a clever punishment, good-government activists say, that exploits a gray area in the law. The whole thing can look minor on paper. They moved your office. So what?
David Fahrenthold -
Neither fairness nor justice, neither reality nor humanity can be simulated or manipulated by wires or remote controls.
Ai Weiwei