Ai Weiwei Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
-
Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
-
Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.
-
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.
-
Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.
-
Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
-
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.
-
All diseases run into one, old age.
-
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.
-
I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
-
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
-
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.
-
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.
-
We have to choose every day to be active participants. To wake up in the morning and choose this life and make something of it is an incredible thing. Not many living creatures have that option. We have so many opportunities and options - it's a huge burden, but it's also the most freeing part of our lives.
-
Once the song is done and recorded, I like to go back and then cut the drums, because then I know exactly what the song needs, and what it doesn't need.
-
Who ever told you there is no such thing in the world as real, true, everlasting love? May the liar have his despicable tongue cut out!
-
Who will bell the cat?
-
Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
