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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How to become a really modern society when today we are so – as a human being, we feel so powerful. We have high technology and a superb way of controlling our life. And at the same time, in many ways we are so primitive.

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How to become a really modern society when today we are so – as a human being, we feel so powerful. We have high technology and a superb way of controlling our life. And at the same time, in many ways we are so primitive.
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Being Feel Modern
In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want — not only you, your whole family and all people like you.
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Crush Discussion Negotiation
A clear understanding of such differences will help the rest of the world understand China and all that is happening to the nation.

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A clear understanding of such differences will help the rest of the world understand China and all that is happening to the nation.
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Happening Rest
Through my work and ways of expression, I strive to engage in dialogue with the society that I am living in.

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Through my work and ways of expression, I strive to engage in dialogue with the society that I am living in.
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Engage Expression Living Strive Way
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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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
If my art has nothing to do with people’s pain and sorrow, what is ‘art’ for?

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If my art has nothing to do with people’s pain and sorrow, what is ‘art’ for?
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Nothing
The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society’s level of civilization.

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The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society’s level of civilization.
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That’s why the country can’t face up to open competition – unless it resorts to measures like North Korea.

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That’s why the country can’t face up to open competition – unless it resorts to measures like North Korea.
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Resort
If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.

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If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.
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Become Stronger
[Cultural departments] don’t care about culture. Maybe they’re the furthest from the people who understand culture.

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[Cultural departments] don’t care about culture. Maybe they’re the furthest from the people who understand culture.
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Culture Furthest Maybe
I call on people to be ‘obsessed citizens,’ forever questioning and asking for accountability. That’s the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.

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I call on people to be ‘obsessed citizens,’ forever questioning and asking for accountability. That’s the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.
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Accountability Happy Obsessed Questioning
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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Giving Up Mean Needed Responsibility
In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.

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In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.
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Mass production is nothing new. Weren’t cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?
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Cathedral Hand Mass Production Pyramid
I came back [to Beijing ] because that’s the only time I had an excuse to come back, or otherwise I would never have a reason to come back.

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I came back [to Beijing ] because that’s the only time I had an excuse to come back, or otherwise I would never have a reason to come back.
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Back Beijing Otherwise
I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.

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I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.
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Installation Publishing Together Working

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