Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
Rachel Nichols -
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Baruch Spinoza -
Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.
Tarja Halonen -
Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
Kate Moss -
Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules.
Gagan Narang
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
Ted Danson -
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
J. B. Priestley -
You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
Majel Barrett -
The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
Irwin Winkler -
We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
Samuel Gompers
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All diseases run into one, old age.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
Nancy Roman -
I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
Idris Elba -
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.
Oona Chaplin -
Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
Sam Jaeger
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Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
Lao Tzu -
People ask me whether I'd like another child, and it is difficult to answer, as I am so happy with the two I have.
Louise Nurding -
Spin Me Round was number one all over the world, everywhere. It changed the face of pop music, no question. We took technology further than Trevor Horn.
Pete Waterman -
I have a little bit of an addiction to work. So I'm always hiding in the bathroom with my Blackberry to work when I'm on holiday.
Penelope Cruz -
Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
Ai Weiwei