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I think the government regrets having Sina Weibo, but they cannot shut it down. That would definitely be suicidal.

Ai Weiwei

In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.
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Abstract Care City Country Enough Large Nobody Quite Stuck
The whole Chinese system – not just the political leadership, the military too, the whole power structure, our education system, the whole of society – is suffering from being cut off from the free flow of information.
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Country Cutting Educational Leadership Military Political Power Structure
I don’t believe in a sense of home.
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Believe Home Sense
You have so many museums in the West, and so many shows, you need somebody to show the work, otherwise it’s empty.
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Empty Many Museum Need Otherwise Show Somebody West Work
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
I hope that my work expresses my worldview and encourages people to exchange ideas.
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Encourage Expressed Idea People Worldview
We never really see the global situation as a total situation. Today’s political leaders are still lacking of the vision.
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Lacking Leader Moving Political Sititaion Today Vision
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
For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.
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Opening Own Refuse Year
We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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Culture Everything Overexposed Popular Living
Imagine one day, the hateful world around you collapses. And it is your attitude, words and actions that put an end to it. Will you be excited?
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Action Attitude Collapse Day Imagine One Word World
No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.
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Claim Established Human Right Society State
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
Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.
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Barely Casulaities Country Deal People Political Treated
If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.
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Abused Arrest Disturbing During High Killed People
It’s like the mountains, the ocean and the rivers. It has its own geological forms. Societies cannot be flat. But during change, human rights, human dignity and free speech have to be protected. Otherwise, we’ll be going backward.
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Backward Form Geographical Human Mountain Ocean Protected Right Speech

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