Ai Weiwei Quotes

I'm always followed by two or three cars and have police around. Even walking in the park, you see them taking photos behind the bushes and trying to videotape everything.

Ai Weiwei

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I feel like every artist has an opportunity to create something new and to challenge themselves to reach out to a new crowd.

Joe Jonas

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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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It is impossible to fight bullies merely by saying they're going too far.

Robert Reich

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We can still find middle ground, truly secure our borders, deal with those already here and address our labor needs. But those who advocate giving current illegal aliens and future guest workers a special path to citizenship must compromise.

John Shadegg

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Touching on universality is an important part of effective storytelling, but the problem with cliches is that they are tired and dull. And that's where writers must try to be artful.

Miguel Syjuco

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I plan to die at my desk.

Don Hewitt

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If my feet ever left the ground, my mother would soon put them back down.

Douglas Booth

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The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

Clive Bell

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The twenties are a deceptively challenging-slash-painful time. I'm just glad to be out of that phase.

Claire Danes

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I consider myself something of a raconteur. I have a rather audacious sense of humour.

Sylvester Stallone

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Obama's a great speaker. Because of his speaking ability and his appearance, a lot of guys got on board. Being the first African American, a lot guys got on board.

Pete Rose

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I would feel ill without theater. It's kind of a cliche, but every time you make a mistake, you really do have to learn from it to move on. When you're doing something live, there's no time to dwell. Hopefully you'll laugh it off, but if not, you can always take a day to hate yourself.

Nina Arianda

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