Ai Weiwei Quotes
Any power or structure that seeks to maintain full control and is not open in any way to loosening its power eventually makes itself ridiculous.Ai Weiwei
Quotes to Explore
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
C. S. Forester -
When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
Ted Danson -
Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
Lao Tzu -
For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
Haley Bennett -
Take good care of our fragile planet.
Kalpana Chawla -
Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.
Florence Nightingale
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Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.
Walter Cronkite -
He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.
Earl Scruggs -
I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
Walter Becker China Crisis -
The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would be made not by new knowledge in molecular biology, because that's exceeding what we can even use. It'll be made by mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, figuring out a way to get all that information together.
Patrick Soon-Shiong -
The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
Sam Yagan -
To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
Ian MacKaye
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What makes Mom the best is that she never put any expectations too high on the kids. She just wanted us to be doing the things that made us happy, as long as we were working hard, but we never had to live up to something.
Kate Hudson -
The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.
Walter Rudolf Hess -
The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.
Immaculee Ilibagiza -
The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
Malcolm Gladwell -
I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
Edgar Wright -
The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings.
Dakota Fanning
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I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anything else but what I do. I definitely know I can do a better job at that.
Odell Beckham, Jr. -
I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time.
Dan O'Brien -
One couldn't even measure roughness. So, by luck, and by reward for persistence, I did found the theory of roughness, which certainly I didn't expect and expecting to found one would have been pure madness.
Benoit Mandelbrot -
Civilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages.
H. P. Blavatsky -
You can do whatever you want with my work.
Kathy Acker -
Any power or structure that seeks to maintain full control and is not open in any way to loosening its power eventually makes itself ridiculous.
Ai Weiwei