Ai Weiwei Quotes

When I returned to China from the United States, I didn’t have a U.S. passport, a wife, or a university degree. From the Chinese point of view, I was a total failure.

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• We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

  

  Warren Weaver
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• I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Nice
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• I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.

  

  Patrick Murphy
  • Politics
  • Tired
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• If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
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• All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Friends
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• I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Live
  • Want
  • Chance

• Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • World
  • Energy
  • Loss

• Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Fighting
  • Fight

• I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Want
  • Know
  • Perfection

• Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Up
  • You
  • Start

• Not all offers I get are exciting and inspiring. I would rather sit at home and not work than jump into mediocrity for the sake of just moving ahead. If it's a good script, I would sacrifice my personal time and grab it.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• I would really like to play someone contemporary, as I've done lots of period pieces. I would love to play an American bimbo or a grimy Londoner. But I'm probably more suited in people's minds to playing a corseted victim.

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Play
  • Like
  • Victim

• The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.

  

  Floyd Patterson
  • Future
  • Pride
  • Fight

• Essentially, if you decide to sell a widget using BitPay, and you sell the widget for $100, in Bitcoin you get $100. And so it doesn't matter what the price does the next minute or the next hour.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • You
  • Matter
  • Decide

• The advice I would give to girls from Eastern backgrounds who are interested in the arts is that it is always beneficial to get your academic studies out of the way before going into the competitive world of the arts.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • World
  • Always
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• If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • World
  • God
  • Love

• Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you don't need to do anything to Shakespeare.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • You
  • Language
  • Need

• Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Easy
  • Very
  • Through

• Rooms in one of those spacious old houses with the large windows facing the sun, and plenty of books—if I were that abstracted but happy form of reptile called a bookworm, which I believed I am prevented from being only by my sex, the genus, I am told, being persistently male, I would take care to spend at least one of my life’s winters in Putbus. How divinely quiet it would be. What a place for him who intends to pass an examination, to write a book, or who wants the crumples got by crushing together too long with his fellows to be smoothed out of his soul.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Happy
  • Soul
  • Books

• I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.

  

  Candace Kita
  • Model
  • First
  • Texas

• Militat omnis amans

  

  Ovid

• The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.

  

  Ben Okri
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• When I returned to China from the United States, I didn’t have a U.S. passport, a wife, or a university degree. From the Chinese point of view, I was a total failure.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Wife
  • Failure
  • Chinese