Ai Weiwei Quotes

One of the reasons religions are widely accepted is spiritual laziness and its resulting fear.

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• I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Great
  • Music
  • Daughter

• The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Important
  • Leader
  • Direction

• When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Feeling

• Socialism requires that government becomes your god.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • God
  • Government
  • Socialism

• If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

  

  Yann Martel
  • You
  • Rules
  • Fiction

• I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Men
  • Bad
  • Think

• I love to get home and hang out with my family. My brothers and I love spending time at the beach. I enjoy doing all kinds of surf sports and keeping healthy.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Time
  • Family
  • Love

• A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • World
  • Die
  • Struggle

• When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Men
  • Women
  • Cooking

• There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Book
  • Know
  • Nice

• The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Money
  • Passion
  • Destiny

• I take my work seriously.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Work
  • Take
  • Seriously

• Good material is good material.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Good
  • Material

• I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Better
  • Loss
  • Getting Better

• The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.

  

  Walter Map
  • God
  • Feet
  • Meat

• I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • American
  • Words

• A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Different
  • Movie
  • Want

• I love princesses. And I think Cinderella is very strong. She's a young woman thinking outside of her environment, outside of her current situation, and she is choosing to believe that all is possible for her. And I think that is so admirable.

  

  Keke Palmer
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • She

• I think we are intrinsically prone to being irrational and superstitious. A lot of it comes from our fear of the unknown and the fear of a lack of control over our fate.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Fear
  • Control
  • Fate

• I have a great belief in spiritual force, but I think we have to realize that spiritual force alone has to have material force with it so long as we live in a material world. The two together make a strong combination. (17 May 1940)

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • World
  • Great
  • Long

• People really want to set up these rivalries because there's a lot of vampire books out there. People want to believe we're all fierce rivals, and really there's just so much camaraderie with authors. Everyone kind of boosts each other.

  

  Richelle Mead
  • Because
  • Everyone
  • Camaraderie

• One of the reasons religions are widely accepted is spiritual laziness and its resulting fear.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Fear
  • Spiritual