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If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?

Ai Weiwei

I think the pearls – one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl – really show a kind of [society] condition.
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Another Five Hundred Million Necklace Pearl Pound Thinking
To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.
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Express Need Reason Yourself
I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.
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Architecture Believe Best Collaboration Made Product
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
I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.
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Across Book Bridge Ginsberg Having Traveler Walk
I don’t personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.
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Association Culture Feel Kind Personality Power Related State Thinking
Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone else’s hand, or many people’s hands. The scale of production is irrelevant to its content.
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Content Hand Irrelevant Left Painting Production Scale Someone
I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.
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Artist Boundaries Extend Looking Possible
This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.
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Art Called Contemporary Form Philosophy Society
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
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
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.
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Border Cope Create Deal Election Idea Imbalance Making Meet Political Popularity Selling Solving Voter
Civilization has evolved toward more acceptance, understanding and tolerance of global thinking. If we accept differences, our creativity booms. It makes life much more colorful.
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Acceptance Civilization Creativity Evolved Global Thinking Tolerance Understanding
[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.
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Belong Biggest Cultural Department Museums World
Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time; we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of what the future was going to be like.
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Country Director Future Going Moment Outside Priilied Somehow Time
Of 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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Country Course Easy Good Kind Luxury Made Relative

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