Ai Weiwei Quotes
I don’t feel powerful at all. I am still under this kind of detention, and you know, this is kind of a bail. Even yesterday I realized while trying to take care of the baby, at the park, I had been secretly followed and it’s quite fragile. Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.Ai Weiwei
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I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
Barney Frank -
It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
Ovid -
We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
Ted Cruz -
Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
H. R. McMaster -
I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.
Yara Shahidi -
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
M. H. Abrams
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
A. S. Byatt -
The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
Ian Somerhalder -
If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
J. Paul Getty -
One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.
Kate Bush -
If you want to buy $10 of Ethereum and poke around with smart contracts, I encourage that. But use it as a technology, not as an investment, unless you know what you're doing.
Olaf Carlson-Wee -
I think young adults get a bad rap for being self-absorbed and self-centered. My experience going around the United States and speaking in schools is that teenagers here are very interested in the fate of their peers around the world.
Patricia McCormick
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It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.
Quintilian -
Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing.
Padma Lakshmi -
It never crossed my mind to be a director, and I'll tell you why: because I'm a woman. It just didn't occur to me, but I knew I had to be in film.
Patricia Riggen -
Lawsuits prod companies to make their products safer.
Adam Cohen -
Every child in America deserves high-quality health care.
Nancy Johnson -
I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.
Rachel Zoe
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We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.
Dan Lipinski -
I prefer writing in the mornings, so to that extent I have a routine. I do reading and other things in the afternoon.
James Fenton -
During Fashion Week, I tend to do a gel manicure because it's easier.
Eva Chen -
Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong.
Douglas Coupland -
I don’t feel powerful at all. I am still under this kind of detention, and you know, this is kind of a bail. Even yesterday I realized while trying to take care of the baby, at the park, I had been secretly followed and it’s quite fragile. Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
Ai Weiwei