Ai Weiwei Quotes

I don’t see myself as a dissident artist. I see them as a dissident government!

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• My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Thinking
  • Feeling
  • Acting

• I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Play
  • Proud
  • Prejudice

• I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Night
  • Morning
  • Eye

• Nobody took you out for lunch when I started. Carla Bruni took me out for lunch once. She was really nice. Otherwise, you don't get fed.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Really

• I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.

  

  Dan Kaminsky
  • Career
  • Exploring
  • Hacker

• I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Art
  • Worry

• God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• The more people told me that, you know, wow, you should be so blessed. Don't you feel blessed? And you have all this – mansion and all these beautiful things. And I said, you know - the more they told me that, the more depressed I got.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Know

• When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.

  

  Usher
  • Dance
  • Made
  • Jokes

• It could get saturated or monotonous if I would do the same characters again and again. That is why, to save myself from that feeling, I take time out to choose roles that excite me.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Time
  • Why
  • Feeling

• I was going to be the head wrangler at a ranch in Wyoming, and the reason I didn't take the job is because I couldn't have my family there - the family had to stay in town. I just wasn't willing to do that.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Family
  • Job
  • Just

• Who doesn't love a 'Lifetime' movie? I think that they know their audience so well.

  

  Vanessa Marano
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Know

• The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Life
  • Worst
  • Misfortunes

• A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • People
  • Drawing
  • Irish

• I am a diehard Seahawks fan because I'm born and raised in Seattle.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Seattle
  • Diehard
  • Seahawks

• Consult duty not events.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Duty
  • Events
  • Consult

• Let us go then, you and I,When the evening is spread out against the skyLike a patient etherized upon a table.

  

  T. S. Eliot

• I am busy with my work. I am committed to Gujarat and I am dedicated to Gujarat. I never talk about my image, never spent a single minute for my image and confusions may be there.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Work
  • May
  • Single

• I have next to no interest in makeup as a thing in and of itself, and nothing stresses me out like Sephora's salespeople.

  

  Andrea Seigel
  • Makeup

• 'YouKu' means what's best and what's cool in Chinese. So, the whole product philosophy really revolves around how to help users, from a massive video database, finds what's best and what's cool.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Help
  • Best
  • Cool

• Du kannst Dich zurückhalten von den Leiden der Welt, das ist Dir freigestellt und entspricht Deiner Natur, aber vielleicht ist gerade dieses Zurückhalten das einzige Leid, das Du vermeiden könntest.

  

  Franz Kafka

• Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • Morning
  • Sports

• My buddy David Wells is a big motorcycle guy, so when I go visit him in San Diego, he takes me out on his bike. He's got some antique Indians. I never really rode during my career, because I was afraid I'd fall off and ruin my career.

  

  David Cone
  • Guy
  • Career
  • Fall

• I don’t see myself as a dissident artist. I see them as a dissident government!

  

  Ai Weiwei