Ai Weiwei Quotes

To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.

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• By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.

  

  Adam Grant
  • You
  • Know
  • Improvement

• I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I think newspapers will survive in some form or another.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Think
  • Survive
  • Newspapers

• Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.

  

  Ice T
  • Happy
  • Cool
  • Win

• I don't want any competition; I've finally made it! I don't want any young bucks knocking me off and taking my job, so stay in school! Stay in school and get a nice job working in an office!

  

  Adam DeVine
  • School
  • Job
  • Nice

• I never, ever thought I would be able to grow a beard like I have now. I think it's gonna be here for a little minute. Fear the beard, hopefully.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Fear
  • Thought
  • Beard

• My workout is ballet class and rehearsal - I've never belonged to a gym.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Gym
  • Class
  • Ballet

• There is less in this than meets the eye.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Eye
  • Less
  • Meets

• Regardless of our ambitions to become part of the E.U., we have to keep in mind that Turkey is also a very strong voice that can represent the needs of our region in wider terms in global platforms.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • Mind
  • Strong
  • Voice

• What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Age
  • Memories
  • Old Age

• I used to play a lot of tennis-ball cricket.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Play
  • Tennis
  • Used

• Scamorza, an Italian curd cheese often labelled 'smoked mozzarella,' melts fantastically well.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Italian
  • Well
  • Often

• Men are seizing on Jesus as the exponent of their own social convictions. They all claim him. ...But in truth Jesus was not a social reformer of the modern type... he approached these facts purely from the moral, and not from the economic or historical point of view.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Jesus

• What astonished me was the very low toxicity of a substance that has such very great physiological power. A little pinch, 5 mg, every day, is enough to keep a person from dying of pellagra, but it is so lacking in toxicity that ten thousand times as much can be taken without harm.

  

  Linus Pauling
  • Great
  • Power
  • Taken

• Insatiate archer! could not one suffice?Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain;And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.

  

  Edward Young
  • Peace
  • Moon
  • Archer

• All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Power

• quoting her producer 'The network is concerned. They're concerned about the fullness of your face. They think you're really overweight and you're going to have to do something about it.' I didn't know what to say to that. I always thought I was decent looking; I had no idea that I was a giant face taking over America! HERE COMES THE FACE!!

  

  Margaret Cho
  • America

• Every man is, no doubt, by nature, first and principally recommended to his own care; and as he is fitter to take care of himself than of any other person, it is fit and right that it should be so.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Nature
  • Doubt

• Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.

  

  Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead
  • Up
  • Nice
  • Lyrics

• God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • God
  • Brain
  • Human

• Nonbelievers are protected by the religion clauses of the Constitution not because secular humanism is a religion, which it is not, but because when the government acts on the basis of religion it discriminates against those who do not "believe" in the governmentally favored manner.

  

  Norman Dorsen
  • Constitution
  • Atheism
  • Secular

• I relate to women and children in women's shelters on a personal level because I've been there myself.

  

  Nia Sanchez
  • Children
  • Relate
  • Shelters

• She looked at him, and oh, the weariness to her, of the effort to understand another language, the weariness of hearing him, attending to him, making out who he was, as he stood there fair-bearded and alien, looking at her. She knew something of him, of his eyes. But she could not grasp him. She closed her eyes.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • She
  • Eyes
  • Effort

• To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.

  

  Ai Weiwei