Ai Weiwei Quotes
Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?
Quotes to Explore
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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My personality is extremely unbalanced.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.
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People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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I will not have Botox. You know why? Because I eat! I eat the fat, I eat the vegetable, I eat everything. If you exercise and you don't eat enough, it takes its toll on the skin.
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I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.
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I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
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Our relationships are precious, valuable treasures from heaven, and we should handle them carefully, always looking for ways to build bridges to each other's hearts.
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Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.
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Competition is a powerful and essential part of this nation's economy and vital to cutting government costs.
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I was on 'Search for Tomorrow' for about nine months, then 'Another World' for two years.
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They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good.
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It was when I was shooting for a Telugu film in Hyderabad when director Meher Ramesh approached me for 'Veera Kannadiga.' I was game to explore a new language and said yes.
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Colorado's home for me.
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All of a sudden, someone threw me in front of this rock and roll band. And I decided then and there that was it. I never wanted to do anything else.
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Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?
