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 WEIWEIOf course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market.
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It’s the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.
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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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That’s why the country can’t face up to open competition – unless it resorts to measures like North Korea.
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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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I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat.
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It also makes humanity much more safe. If we see pureness somewhere as something to be desired, the trouble starts.
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…photographs are facts, but not necessarily true… The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.
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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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You’re still being looked at as somebody who – it’s a very complicated issue.
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The Internet is the best thing that ever happened to China. It turns us into individuals and also enables us to share our perceptions and feelings. It creates a culture of individualism and exchange even though the real society doesn’t promote it.
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I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.
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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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I also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.
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The rest of the world understands little about China’s changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.
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It’s like the mountains, the ocean and the rivers. It has its own geological forms. Societies cannot be flat. But during change, human rights, human dignity and free speech have to be protected. Otherwise, we’ll be going backward.
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