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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.

Ai Weiwei

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
Censorship is saying: “I’m the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.” But the internet is like a tree that is growing.
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Conclusion Mine People Quiet Saying Sentence Tree Voice
Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution.
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Happen Human Humanity Independent Information Liberation Opportunity Race Technology
Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it’s not a product; it’s an understanding of human nature.
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Country Design Everyone iPhone Product Understanding Want
You’re still being looked at as somebody who – it’s a very complicated issue.
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Complicated Issue Looked Somebody Still
When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.
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Censorship Education Full Internet Issues Strict Student View World Young
A state like China looks so powerful, but they are so scared of the Internet, so the Internet is more powerful than them.
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Country Internet More Powerful Scared State
As a total activity – I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.
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Activity Architecture Art Living Practice Publishing Together Total Writing
You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
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China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.
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Country Development Different Improvement Indifferent More Much Right
The society was so different [in China] – it was a feudalistic society. It didn’t come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.
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Come Country Different Feudalistic Industrial Point Revolution Society Twenties Year
If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?
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My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate [the two] is itself a very political intention.
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Anybody Art Definition Expression Freedom Same Separate Thinking
For artists and intellectuals today, what is most needed is to be clear about social responsibility, because that is what most people automatically give up. Just to protect yourself as an individual is very political.
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Artist Giving Up Intellectual Mean Needed Responsibility Social
Mass production is nothing new. Weren’t cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?
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Cathedral Hand Mass People Production Pyramid
You can never know what is and what is not powerful, but you can always find out what the powerful people are scared of.
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Always Know Look People Powerful Scared

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 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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