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Whenever there is injustice, there is tension. But in China it is very hard to release your anger unless you burn yourself or you jump from a bridge. In a society where there is no freedom of the press, it is difficult for victims to be noticed.

Ai Weiwei

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
I think the pearls – one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl – really show a kind of [society] condition.
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Another Five Hundred Million Necklace Pearl Pound Thinking
It’s the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.
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Before Confess Everything Judicial Over Place Stay Suffer System
The tragic reality of today is reflected in the true plight of our spiritual existence. We are spineless and cannot stand straight.
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Existence Freedom Plight Powerful Reality Reflected Spiritual Tasted
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
I am everywhere and I am nowhere. That’s the beauty of the Internet Age.
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Age Beauty Everywhere Internet Nowhere
Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
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Fragile Mean Powerful Recovery
So, the politicians and the people who make decisions very often is the one we think can make some difference. But of course they will not make a difference if the citizens or the individuals not push it or not to speak out, to possess a very strong voice about, this is not acceptable.
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Acceptable Citizen Course Difference Often People Politician Strong
You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.
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Express Expression Need Purpose Yourself
My angst and my insecurity reflect the state’s angst and insecurity. The state is scared too.
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Angst Insecurity Reflect Scared State
The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.
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Intension Intention Political Politics Separate
I don’t like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.
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Country Emotional Place Relation Today
This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.
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Art Called Contemporary Form Philosophy Society
Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?
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Brainwashed Choice Free Jailed Lying Wake Walking
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
In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.
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Decision Immediate Life Major Often Quick Response

Whenever there is injustice, there is tension. But in China it is very hard to release your anger unless you burn yourself or you jump from a bridge. In a society where there is no freedom of the press, it is difficult for victims to be noticed.

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Whenever there is injustice, there is tension. But in China it is very hard to release your anger unless you burn yourself or you jump from a bridge. In a society where there is no freedom of the press, it is difficult for victims to be noticed.

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