Ai Weiwei Quotes
China might seem quite successful in its controls, but it has only raised the water level. It’s like building a dam: it thinks there is more water so it will build higher. But every drop of water is still in there. It doesn’t understand how to let the pressure out. It builds up a way to maintain control and push the problem to the next generation.Ai Weiwei
Quotes to Explore
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Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?
Pat Buchanan -
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
Ja Rule -
I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
Park Chan-wook -
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
H. L. Mencken
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
Nancy Pelosi -
In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
P. J. O'Rourke -
I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
Daniel Cormier -
My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
Gale Gordon -
If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
Yusuf Hamied -
A lot of people think that to make it as a model you just need to be pretty and slim, but they're wrong. There's a lot of hard work involved. You have to be very focused, know what kind of work you're aiming for.
Irina Shayk
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
Jack Canfield -
It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
Taryn Manning Boomkat -
By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.
Harry A. Blackmun -
Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just this neurotic kid who was singing 'Annie Get Your Gun.'
Rachel Bloom -
My idea of fast food is a mallard.
Ted Nugent -
I always like to play roles where I either love the character or think that it's a story that I can tell better than anyone else. There are always reasons for me to do whatever I do.
Tammy Blanchard
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Lack of courage or means often deters the European woman from more independent business activity, and this in spite of increasing freedom to choose her occupation, in spite of brilliant examples of successful undertakings of women, in photography, hotel or boarding-house management, dress-making, etc.
Ellen Key -
The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
He took my music, but he gave me my name.
Muddy Waters -
I don't eat fast food - and neither should you!
Kendall Schmidt Big Time Rush -
Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two.
Maria Monk -
China might seem quite successful in its controls, but it has only raised the water level. It’s like building a dam: it thinks there is more water so it will build higher. But every drop of water is still in there. It doesn’t understand how to let the pressure out. It builds up a way to maintain control and push the problem to the next generation.
Ai Weiwei