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A state like China looks so powerful, but they are so scared of the Internet, so the Internet is more powerful than them.

Ai Weiwei

The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.
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Case Constrain Flight Freedom Imprisoned Land Misconception
Imagine one day, the hateful world around you collapses. And it is your attitude, words and actions that put an end to it. Will you be excited?
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Action Attitude Collapse Day Imagine One Word World
Even though everybody who looked at me would call me a Chinese artist, that’s the 1980s. New York in the ’80s was not so interesting.
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Artist Encouragement New York
I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who’s like a child.
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Child Children Ginsberg Person Thinking
Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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Coincidently Death Dictatorship Stories Story Turn
When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That’s dangerous for human development.
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Censor Development Everything Exposed Feel Government Ourselves Scared Thinking
In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.
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Deal Democratic Dictatorship Kind Society Totalitarian
This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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All Attract Better Called Fame
The motivation is really to say people can find the game of getting involved interesting and find the problem and really have the passion and the enthusiasm to solve it and move forward, but that’s all I know.
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Forward Game Involved Motivation Moving Passion People
Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution.
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Happen Human Humanity Independent Information Liberation Opportunity Race Technology
That’s why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify with it, which I always find myself very contradictory to.
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Contradictory Feeling Home Identity Question Require Sense Trust
China didn’t want to lose the cutting edge of technology. So the idea of having a Sina Weibo was an attempt to compete with Twitter. However, it has no soul – which is freedom of expression. Nevertheless,
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Attempt Country Cutting Regret Sina Suicidal Technology
A clear understanding of such differences will help the rest of the world understand China and all that is happening to the nation.
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Clear Country Difference Happening Nation Rest Understand Understanding World
If there’s the right condition, I always want to express the concept or ideas in a very independent way.
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Always Condition Ideas Independent Right Want Way
Even if there have been setbacks during these past years, China is changing. China’s society is opening.
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Changing Country Opening Past Society Year
[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I’ve been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.
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Art Attitude Culture Long Practicing Related

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