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.
AI WEIWEIIf you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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Liberty is about the right to question everything.
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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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How to become a really modern society when today we are so – as a human being, we feel so powerful. We have high technology and a superb way of controlling our life. And at the same time, in many ways we are so primitive.
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Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.
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This is a very general understanding of art in China, that being an artist can make you money and turn you into a star.
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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
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For those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes.
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The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
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I also have to speak out for people around me who are afraid, who think it is not worth it or who have totally given up hope. So I want to set an example: you can do it and this is OK, to speak out.
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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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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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Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.
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If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.
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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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