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I don’t like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.

Ai Weiwei

When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That’s dangerous for human development.
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Censor Development Everything Exposed Feel Government Ourselves Scared Thinking
They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own – cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.
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Defend Difficulty Dramatic Handle Idea Liberal Men Women Shame Show
I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who’s like a child.
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Child Children Ginsberg Person Thinking
Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
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Act Change Chinese Kind Society Tell Thinking World
By participating in the society we live in, we understand our conditions and the way we relate to the world.
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Condition Participating Relate Society Understand Way World
The [China] government has improved in the last years. Of course, the structure is still the same; there’s still a one-party system and strong censorship.
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Censorship Government Last Party Stem Strong Year
I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.
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Artist Cities New York
You’re still being looked at as somebody who – it’s a very complicated issue.
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Complicated Issue Looked Somebody Still
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 Citizen Forever Happy Life Obsessed People Questioning
Hopefully, other successes aren’t like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn’t make any sense.
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Carries Hopefully Irrelevant Like More People Stories Story Success Successes
For those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes.
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Actor Film Hero Kingdom Lying Old Real
After I came back [to China], there was still a long period of time when I felt I had nothing to do.
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China Long Periods
I don’t think I was very structured in that society and I don’t really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.
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Believe Country Personal Structured Success Thinking
I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.
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Artist Boundaries Extend Looking Possible
It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that. There are crises and emergencies all the time, we might not even be aware of some. But I am afraid we’ll have to wait and observe precisely what the government is up to.
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Crises Easy Emergencies Government Job Time Waiting
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

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