Ai Weiwei Quotes

I will never leave China, unless I am forced to. Because China is mine. I will not leave something that belongs to me in the hands of people I do not trust.

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• Getting direct consumer revenue through movies or games or other culture products is something that we are very suitable for.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Culture
  • Movies
  • Games

• Everybody thinks they deserve something.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Something
  • Deserve
  • Thinks

• To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Funny

• Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Positive
  • Research
  • Negative

• I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Truth
  • Think
  • Ready

• The whole point of music is being able to share your story. I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• People do not lack strength; they lack will.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • People
  • Will
  • Strength

• I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It's got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Quality
  • Like
  • Genre

• I was talking to Marylanders... What we were hearing, everywhere, was an overwhelming sense of frustration. People felt a huge disconnect between Annapolis and the rest of Maryland.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • People
  • Rest
  • Frustration

• I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • People
  • Famous
  • Numbers

• Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Money
  • Me

• I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Long
  • Women
  • Deep

• Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Interest
  • Oil
  • Mess

• In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Power
  • Control
  • Democracy

• Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power
  • Year
  • Plants

• If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Years
  • Movies
  • Two

• A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Up
  • Job
  • Win

• IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Life
  • Great
  • Power

• A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• I can't make eye contact when people sing 'Happy Birthday' to me.

  

  Dove Cameron
  • People
  • Happy
  • Birthday

• The difficulty for the Government is there's this ideological straitjacket of the market will provide, let the market rip and everything will work out... It's back to trickle-down economics, which, it's plain to see, have not delivered.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Work
  • Government
  • Economics

• People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That's right, records! Man, they don't even make records no more!

  

  Al Green
  • People
  • Up

• I will never leave China, unless I am forced to. Because China is mine. I will not leave something that belongs to me in the hands of people I do not trust.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
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