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For those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes.

Ai Weiwei

It’s very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.
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Country Essential Giving People Protect Protecting Society Value
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
Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.
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Art Life never Separate
In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.
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Deal Democratic Dictatorship Kind Society Totalitarian
Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one’s imagination – perhaps more importantly – creativity is the power to act.
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Aside Creativity Imagination Past Potential Reject Seek Status
Liberty is about our rights to question everything.
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Everything Liberty Question Right
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
To call yourself a Chinese artist or woman artist or African artist reflects a certain kind of condition. To me, that is not necessary.
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Artist Call Certain Chinese Condition Country Kind Reflect Yourself
You don’t have to march on Tiananmen, but you do have to be clear-minded, to find your own means of expression.
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Clear Expression March Mean Minded Own Tiananmen
A few thousand are to be built in the next few years, all using taxpayer money. But there is no system, no research, no content, no good programs, no good managers.
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Built Content Good Manage Research System Taxpayer Thousand
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
Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.
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Equal Equip Express Independent Information Knowledge Mind Opportunity
Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.
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Better Condition Good Guaranteed Life never Safe Use
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
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
Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.
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Application Art Look School Statistic Student Ten Thousand

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