Ai Weiwei Quotes

This simple form of repression, of using the method of not letting anyone speak, will never succeed.

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• I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Up
  • Always
  • Loved

• I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • God
  • Why
  • Problem

• Whenever you feel down, you can check on Twitter and feel better about yourself, because it's only people who like you.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • People
  • Better
  • Yourself

• At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • You
  • First
  • Reservations

• Why you kill me? I never did you anything. Not kill me! I beg not to be locked up. Never let me out of my prison - not kill me! You kill me before I understand what life is. You must tell me why you locked me up!

  

  Kaspar Hauser
  • Life
  • Understand
  • Kill

• I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Me
  • Kind
  • Person

• I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • May
  • Death
  • You

• If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Thinking
  • Body
  • New York

• I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Life
  • Father
  • My Life

• The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Women
  • Slavery
  • Medical

• I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971.

  

  Garik Israelian
  • May
  • Career
  • Science

• The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Political
  • Culture
  • City

• Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Music
  • Fashion
  • Rock

• I always have the impression that I write the same book.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Book
  • Write
  • Same

• I am definitely still the same kid that I was picking up the guitar at 15. But, I have definitely learned to be more flexible and roll with the punches. It's such an unpredictable business to be in and it's insane how things change so last minute.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Business
  • Change
  • Kid

• They hate whom they fear.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • Fear
  • Hate
  • Whom

• I've been lucky to learn by playing all kinds of roles and watching all kinds of really good cinematographers, actors, and directors for many years before people were even aware of me in terms of audience.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Good
  • Learn

• It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• I absolutely tore George W. Bush to shreds, despite the fact I knew the guy personally and I actually campaigned for him in 2000. It's our job to just call it like we see it whether these people are our friends or not.

  

  Mika Brzezinski
  • Guy
  • Jobs
  • Facts

• I do like alternative rock and rap, but as far as inspirational, then I go full-on orchestra. It fills up your entire being.

  

  Osric Chau
  • Up
  • Rock
  • inspirational

• People think of border security in very different ways, but to me, it's very simple: border security is national security.

  

  Kirstjen Nielsen
  • People
  • Different
  • Simple

• The most important thing in the Land of Israel is to build, build, build. Its important that there will be an Israeli presence everywhere. Our principal problem is still Israels leaders unwillingness to say in a simple manner that the Land of Israel belongs to the People of Israel.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • People
  • Important
  • Simple

• How far must you go to gain respect? Um... Well, it's kind of simple: just remain your own. Or you'll be crazy sad and alone.

  

  Kamaal Ibn John Fareed A Tribe Called Quest
  • Simple
  • Crazy
  • Rap

• This simple form of repression, of using the method of not letting anyone speak, will never succeed.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Simple