I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat.
AI WEIWEILiberty is about the right to question everything.
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Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.
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I also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.
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Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.
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I think Donald Trump should cool down a little bit. To pay more attention to the history. To really understand what U.S.’s value is about. I think, as a president, those things you always have to ask.
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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall. Art should live in the heart of the people.
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The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society’s level of civilization.
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My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.
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To give a price to an artwork, no matter how high or low, is always absurd. It’s not something that can be measured by money or by certain numbers.
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Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.
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They’ve become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.
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[Therefore] holding a trial outside the court. I think that is fairness, that is justice, that is a civil society. Otherwise call it an evil society because everything is hidden.
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Everything is selected by the central government without good judgment or an understanding of culture to make it really safe. They will become nobody to maintain their power and be raised to the next higher level.
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China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.
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