Ai Weiwei Quotes
I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.
Quotes to Explore
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God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.
Victoria Osteen
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.
Cara Delevingne
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
Zubin Mehta
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
Malala Yousafzai
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
Ugo Betti
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
Eddie Murphy
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When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
Rachel Cohn
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A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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I am interested in shows that are not out-and-out gag fests: you see the truth of a broken heart behind them. That is what life is like: it's really funny, you see funny things as soon as you step out of the room, but underneath that is a whole bag of broken hearts. It's that real pain and that real hilarity that makes life so intriguing.
Tamsin Greig
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
Hannah Simone
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
Kate Thompson
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You know how you put peanut butter on a piece of bread and the bread falls - it never falls on the bread side down, it always falls peanut butter side down. That's because of gravity.
J. B. Smoove
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
Rachel Nichols
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I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant.
Ed Helms
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
Jack Welch
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
Daniel Craig
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I haven't gotten jobs because I'm famous or I have a big Twitter feed - it's primarily directors. People employ me because I'm right for the part. But then, everybody needs a bit of luck, being in the right place at the right time. You just gotta be in that place for that opportunity to come by.
Jason Clarke
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Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all my ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.
William Butler Yeats
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Performing at the TMCF Awards Gala is so exciting.
Andra Day
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If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.
Oscar Wilde
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It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
Vera Wang
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I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.
Ai Weiwei