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The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It’s as simple as that.

Ai Weiwei

We should also leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth; and corrodes mankind’s belief that we can better ourselves.
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Behind Contact Discrimination Expression Ignorant Leave Marrow Minded War
You can never know what is and what is not powerful, but you can always find out what the powerful people are scared of.
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Always Know Look People Powerful Scared
As long as I can communicate, I’m not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn’t matter at all.
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Communicate Dialogue Engage Living Lonely Long Society
If I look at it, I would laugh. I don’t know how I became successful.
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Laughing Look Successful
We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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Culture Everything Overexposed Popular Living
The whole Chinese system – not just the political leadership, the military too, the whole power structure, our education system, the whole of society – is suffering from being cut off from the free flow of information.
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Country Cutting Educational Leadership Military Political Power Structure
They very often just try to cope with their own election, their own popularity, solving the problem or selling the ideas to meet their own voters. By doing that, it creates a great imbalance in terms of making deals or treaty or all those things.
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Border Cope Create Deal Election Idea Imbalance Making Meet Political Popularity Selling Solving Voter
Everything is selected by the central government without good judgment or an understanding of culture to make it really safe. They will become nobody to maintain their power and be raised to the next higher level.
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Central Culture Everything Government Make Understanding
Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?
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Brainwashed Choice Free Jailed Lying Wake Walking
I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who’s like a child.
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Child Children Ginsberg Person Thinking
Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.
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Disconnected Do Feeling Find Hard Hundred Purpose Real Still Thing Very
I think U.S. and China is a big opportunity, to be seen as partner or some kind of strategic partner maybe. But those kind of powers have a way of getting too big, then we’ll have competition.
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Country Opportunity Partner Strategic Strong Winning
A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
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Fairytale Music Nation Tragedy
The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.
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Country Experience Expression Individual Responsibility Right Understanding
Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.
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Influence Interview Understood Warhol Work Writing
Liberty is about the right to question everything.
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Everything Liberty Question Right

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