Ai Weiwei Quotes

The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the commercial aspect that is most apparent. I have seen how, through sport, cities and corporations compete against each other for financial gain.

Ai Weiwei

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: chinese
  • Birth: May 18, 1957

Topics

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Too many radiologists still believe there is a risk from a chest x-ray. Few radiologists can explain radiation to the patient in words the patient can understand.

John Cameron

WordsBelieveUnderstandRiskX-Ray

In documentaries, you're confronted with reality; you can not manipulate or move it.

Jean-Pierre Dardenne

RealityYouMoveDocumentaries

In my dreams, whatever I am doing, I look down to see if I have prosthetics. It sets my time frame in my dream, I think. I'd have these dreams that I am running and launching myself, and I look down and see that I have prosthetics. I have a lot of those, where I do great, amazing things with my prosthetics.

Amy Purdy

DreamsGreatTimeMyselfI AmThink

Lots of times I'll play lead and rhythm together.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

TogetherPlayRhythmLeadLots

Not being locked into one set of feelings, which you run the risk of mistaking for the truth, you have greater and more intense access to all feeling states, including those you would never choose to act out.

Mary Gaitskill

TruthYouChooseFeelingsRunNever

When we shift back to feeling the sensations in our body and connect to what's in front of us, the creative channel opens up.

Josh Pais

CreativeBodyBackFeelingUpUs

Interestingly, although the 'Books of Blood' were greeted with cries of righteous horror - and smirks - I didn't think of them as being particularly excessive. God knows what I did think was excessive at the time, but I didn't think they were.

Clive Barker

GodTimeThinkBloodHorrorBeing

I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.

Augusten Burroughs

GreatBookConfidentYearNewWrite

We like reactions - a reaction is walking out on us, a reaction is throwing tomatoes at the stage, that's a healthy psychological reaction.

Alice Cooper

WalkingHealthyReactionStageOut

If you have the feeling of choice, if you feel free, you will be better off. And when I say better off I mean that if people feel they have control over their lives, they call in for fewer sick days from work. They have a lesser probability of having a heart attack or stroke. They live longer. They're happier.

Sheena Iyengar

WorkLiveHeartPeopleControlSick

I'd rather be on a label that understands us and allows us to be a bit odd.

Sean Booth

UsOddRatherLabelBitUnderstands

When I met my wife, my whole life changed on a dime, really quickly and for the better.

Seal

LifeWifeBetterWholeChangedDime

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