Ai Weiwei Quotes
Tips on surviving the regime: Respect yourself and speak for others. Do one small thing every day to prove the existence of justice.Ai Weiwei
Quotes to Explore
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
Karl Kraus -
I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
Nas -
In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.
Dan Pink -
I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
Gail Carson Levine -
I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
Samira Wiley -
I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.
Ingmar Bergman
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I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
Adam McKay -
War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.
Baltasar Kormakur -
If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.
Edie Campbell -
Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
Mandy Patinkin -
It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.
Nancy Reagan
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
Saina Nehwal -
As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
Sam Neill -
Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
Carine Roitfeld -
Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development and triumph of the manufacturers and bankers of the industrial North, East and West over the slave-holder of the South.
A. Philip Randolph -
Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
N. Murray Edwards -
You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
Jack Welch
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Every actor starts out saying, 'I can play anything in the world: I'm only 25, but I can be a man 70 years old. I'll put on a gray wig and do it.' But nobody hires you for that. You have to play yourself on the screen.
Peter Graves -
TV is the best babysitter.
John Goodman -
She had become an expert at wearing masks, so much so that sometimes it was difficult to find her true self beneath the layers.
Elizabeth Chadwick -
A big misconception is that a black hole is made of matter that has just been compacted to a very small size. That's not true. A black hole is made from warped space and time.
Kip Thorne -
To an American, that which deprives him of his freedom he regards as injustice, and that which allows him to enjoy that freedom he regards as justice. The concept of justice is as central to the totality of his being as freedom is, and this is not surprising, since the motivating idea behind the American Declaration of Independence was the fervent desire for justice.
Ndabaningi Sithole -
Tips on surviving the regime: Respect yourself and speak for others. Do one small thing every day to prove the existence of justice.
Ai Weiwei