In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.
AI WEIWEIIn my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.
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It’s the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.
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Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
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For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.
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I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who’s like a child.
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I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].
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Once you’ve tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.
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We literally lived underground. We dug a hole and lived there for years. My father cleaned public toilets, even though he was a highly respected poet.
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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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And who is going to win the competition if U.S. cannot hold a strong ideology? And even the U.S. would’ve lost the ground to win.
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The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum.
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The society was so different [in China] – it was a feudalistic society. It didn’t come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.
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I never regret anything.
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I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.
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This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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If I look at it, I would laugh. I don’t know how I became successful.
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