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Growing up, my family was an enemy of the state. I have experienced more disappointment than joy, much more sad stories or desperate conditions.

Ai Weiwei

[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
Liberty is about our rights to question everything.
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Everything Liberty Question Right
If it’s possible, I will have some noodles in the morning and start talking to people, start to think about a few things in my head.
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Few Head Morning Noodle Play Possible Project Start Think Thinking
We literally lived underground. We dug a hole and lived there for years. My father cleaned public toilets, even though he was a highly respected poet.
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Cleaned Highly Hole Literally Lived Poet Respected Toilet Underground Yera
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
Even though everybody who looked at me would call me a Chinese artist, that’s the 1980s. New York in the ’80s was not so interesting.
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Artist Encouragement New York
There isn’t a single Chinese university that can invite me to give a talk. Even though I know there are many students who would like to hear what I have to say.
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Country Hear Invite Single Student Talk University
The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
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Anything Art Artwork Happen Winning
At the moment about 350,000 students return to China from abroad each year – 350,000 young and educated people. I know about them because they know me and often ask me in the street if they can take a selfie with me.
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Abroad Educated Government Moment People Student Year Young
Life is much more interesting when you make a little bit of effort.
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Effort Interesting Life Little Make More Much
If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?
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Kind Law Nobody Protect Society
I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted, but at the same time it’s really useless.
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Beautiful Called Craftsmanship Interested Material Mean Perfect Useless
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
I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.
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Art Certainty Creative Extend Idea Imagination 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
To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat.
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Country Critical Dangerous Figure Government Media Symbolic

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