Nowadays, China is experiencing the detrimental effects of such decisions. Its citizens have no creativity.
AI WEIWEIA lot of the time [in the U.S.], I was thinking about how spending time is always questionable or is always the biggest obstacle in my life.
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My angst and my insecurity reflect the state’s angst and insecurity. The state is scared too.
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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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Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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A lot of the time [in the U.S.], I was thinking about how spending time is always questionable or is always the biggest obstacle in my life.
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We never really see the global situation as a total situation. Today’s political leaders are still lacking of the vision.
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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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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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This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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The project or a few ideas which are not finished or if there are possible directions and what will lead into another game. It’s always like setting up some kind of game you can continuously play.
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The jobs for 7 million university graduates every year, the immense corruption: Even some Western governments would have to scramble to find solutions to such problems.
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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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Liberty is about our rights to question everything.
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I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.
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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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[Being unique] gives so much privilege to people who can make it, rather than having some moral and aesthetic discussions.
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