Hopefully, other successes aren’t like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn’t make any sense.
AI WEIWEINowadays, China is experiencing the detrimental effects of such decisions. Its citizens have no creativity.
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Maybe [success] is because I’m in China and I’m more open. Maybe it’s my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.
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Otherwise, I think the building can be bigger, larger, and the city can be much more crazy. The problem is the government structure is so deadly stupid, not really solving problems but creating a lot of problems itself every day.
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Liberty is about the right to question everything.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of joy.
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Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
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I don’t think China should care if this crazy old guy should have a show here or not.
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The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.
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Whenever there is injustice, there is tension. But in China it is very hard to release your anger unless you burn yourself or you jump from a bridge. In a society where there is no freedom of the press, it is difficult for victims to be noticed.
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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.
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The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it…it’s very disturbing.
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You know about the fantasies related to the classics, but there is no real discussion about today’s life and no discussion of the real conditions – which is really sickening.
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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that. There are crises and emergencies all the time, we might not even be aware of some. But I am afraid we’ll have to wait and observe precisely what the government is up to.
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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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People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China’s relationship with the outside world.
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If there’s the right condition, I always want to express the concept or ideas in a very independent way.
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