Ai Weiwei Quotes

In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want-not only you, your whole family and all people like you.

Ai Weiwei

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• Everybody thinks they deserve something.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Something
  • Deserve
  • Thinks

• I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Long
  • Art
  • Remember

• There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Relationship
  • Child
  • Poverty

• I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Know
  • Me
  • Travel

• But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?

  

  Edgar Bergen
  • God
  • Know
  • Ever

• The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • People
  • Life
  • Long

• I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Community
  • Stop
  • Thought

• Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I have been acting since I was thirteen.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Acting
  • Been
  • Thirteen

• Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Kids
  • Pretty
  • Working

• The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Me
  • Reading
  • Look

• With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Experience
  • Player
  • Better

• It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.

  

  Adam Brown
  • Room
  • Odd
  • Sharing

• It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Alone
  • Moral
  • Balance

• Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Sister

• Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Money
  • Remember
  • Control

• I've witnessed so many meetings and conferences where people are trying to figure out what young people think, and my feeling has consistently been that you should just ask them.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Trying
  • Feeling

• I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Life
  • Taken

• Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Writing
  • Hope
  • Day

• No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs.

  

  Charlie Hunnam
  • Music

• It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek,' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.

  

  LeVar Burton
  • World
  • True
  • Today

• Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• The average full-time working male works more than a full-time working female.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Time
  • Working
  • More

• In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want-not only you, your whole family and all people like you.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Time
  • Family