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Many people are going to use [Beijing National Stadium], which makes it more meaningful. If we don’t design it, somebody else has to design it.

Ai Weiwei

I am everywhere and I am nowhere. That’s the beauty of the Internet Age.
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Age Beauty Everywhere Internet Nowhere
It’s really rubbish that some kind of “technical” learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.
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Better Learning Mean Person Rubbish Skill Technical
Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.
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Car Enjoy Overturning Police Probably Sport Super-intense Workout
I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.
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Artist Expression Extend Freedom Power Responsibility Thinking
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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Carries Change Disturbing Intention Media Message
If I look at it, I would laugh. I don’t know how I became successful.
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Laughing Look Successful
The IT people who have made such an effort to know and understand computer technology. They are frustrated that you cannot use Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in China. They are the first to recognize that the situation is terrible.
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Computer Effort People Technology Understand
[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don’t care about culture.
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Affair Care Culture Daily Understand
I don’t think China has professional museums – not in the past, present, or near future.
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Country Future Museum Past Present Professional Thinking
There are many cases and layers of racist behavior in the US – from police treatment to the issues of education and job opportunities. In America, however, such cases are being discussed publically.
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Country Education Issue Job Opportunity Racist Treatment
Nationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.
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Barrier Border Imagination Intelligence Nationality Possibilities
There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.
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Dictatorship Graceful Outdoor Sport Sports Stone Throwing
The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.
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Chinese Cold Government Relationship War
I loved New York — every inch of it. It was a little bit scary at that time, but still, the excitement was so strong — visually and intellectually. It was like a monster.
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Bit Country Excitement Inch Little Scary Strong Time
If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I’m saying is common sense.
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Become Giving Up Government Same Saying Thing Thinking
To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.
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Express Need Reason Yourself

Many people are going to use [Beijing National Stadium], which makes it more meaningful. If we don’t design it, somebody else has to design it.

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