Ai Weiwei Quotes
I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.Ai Weiwei
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
Barack Obama -
I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with lots of sketches thrown in could be really fun. But you know, that may never happen. Minimally, I just want to keep making stand-up.
Hari Kondabolu -
Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
Camryn Manheim -
The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.
Oscar Isaac
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I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery.
Sam Smith -
Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
Ira Glass -
Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.
Caitlyn Jenner -
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
Samuel Johnson -
True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
Baruch Spinoza
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You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.
Wayne Dyer -
On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.
Dan Lipinski -
Sometimes I read a really good script, and I just know that it's not a good fit.
J. K. Simmons -
People who devote themselves to a life of style are admirable.
Zac Posen -
Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.
Patricia Ireland -
When you lose your freedom, you are alone with your emotions and reactions... you can see, for example, the bad reactions you have in front of others or the way you could be dismissive or harsh.
Ingrid Betancourt
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There was something about the sound of a man in pain that resembled the sound of a wounded animal.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it, if you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.
Joan Kirner -
To increase the power, develop the resources and promote the happiness of a Confederacy, it is requisite there should be so much of homogeneity that the welfare of every portion would be the aim of the whole.
Jefferson Davis -
I comfort myself with the knowledge that if Duval ever feels smothered by me, it will be because I am holding a pillow over his face.
Robin LaFevers -
I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.
Ai Weiwei