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Ai Weiwei

What is important is that we actively express our thoughts and wishes, in every realm that we can access.
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Access Express Important Realm Wish
I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.
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Emotion Emotional Man More Old Physical Poetry Problem Together
I think you can give meaning to any condition; you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don’t think that it would give an individual human being a better condition.
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Condition Giving Meaning Poor Successful Thinking Unsuccessful
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
The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern and good intentions.
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Avoid Belief Carrodes Denies Ignorant Mankind Minded Misunderstanding Narrow Warmth
You know about the fantasies related to the classics, but there is no real discussion about today’s life and no discussion of the real conditions – which is really sickening.
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Classic Condition Discussion Fantasies Related Sickening Today
It [success] is really by mistake.
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Mistake Reality Success
Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.
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Artist Longer Mindset Produce Seeing Something Such Thing Way
What counts in the end is what the government does.
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Count Doe End Government
To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.
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Express Need Reason Yourself
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
We should also leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth; and corrodes mankind’s belief that we can better ourselves.
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Behind Contact Discrimination Expression Ignorant Leave Marrow Minded War
Today, the general masses in this society are in this political-social condition that really encourages people to become rich and become a star and be unique.
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Condition Encourage General Masses People Society Star Unique
You’re still being looked at as somebody who – it’s a very complicated issue.
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Complicated Issue Looked Somebody Still
Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you.
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Art Artist Character Course People Thinking
Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.
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Delay Freedom Human Moment Nature Stupidity Succeed Winning

We move so fast that memory is something we can only grasp

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