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.Ai Weiwei
Quotes to Explore
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
Wayne Rogers -
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 -
Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
Imre Lakatos -
I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
Paddy Ashdown -
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
Victor Hugo -
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
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I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.
Gareth Bale -
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 -
I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
J. Paul Getty -
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 -
If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
Ian McShane -
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
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'Mvula' is my married name, but for some reason my nan calls me 'McVula.' I'm not sure if it's one of those jokey Caribbean things, or whether she's just getting it wrong.
Laura Mvula -
Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.
Ma Jun -
With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.
Quentin Blake -
The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.
Sam Ewing -
The Internet is part of our evolution. The mystics used to say, 'We can travel across the planet in a thought.' Now we really can. We can be connected with a million people at a time.
Forest Whitaker -
CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent.
Floyd Abrams
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There's been a lot of wedding songs and proposals. It's cool because when they play it at weddings so, it means a lot to them. That's a big deal. They're always going to remember 'Head Over Boots' as played at their wedding.
Jon Pardi -
'Long Black Train' was inspired by a vision that I had of a long, black train running down this track way out in the middle of nowhere. I could see people standing out to the sides of this track watching this train go by. As I was walking, experiencing this vision, I kept asking myself, 'What does this vision mean and what is this train?'
Josh Turner -
There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them.
Vaclav Havel -
I seem to be able to just sort of sink and slide under the radar, which is nice.
Daniel Cudmore -
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