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If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain

Ai Weiwei

Nowadays, China is experiencing the detrimental effects of such decisions. Its citizens have no creativity.
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Citizen Country Creativity Decision Detrimental Effect Experiencing
I want people to see their own power.
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Own People Power Want
I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.
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Art Certainty Creative Extend Idea Imagination Thinking
If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain
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Free Life Live Single Speech Vain
Many people are going to use [Beijing National Stadium], which makes it more meaningful. If we don’t design it, somebody else has to design it.
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Design Make Meaningful People Use
Otherwise, I think the building can be bigger, larger, and the city can be much more crazy. The problem is the government structure is so deadly stupid, not really solving problems but creating a lot of problems itself every day.
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Bigger Building City Crazy Larger More Much Stupid Thinking
I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
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Fight Fighting Generation Same Want
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
The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society’s level of civilization.
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Civilization Freedom Important Level Society Speech
If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.
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Discussed Human Rights Meaning Openly Supposed
A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
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Fairytale Music Nation Tragedy
There’s no such thing as “fixed” culture. China is also becoming more global. Its problems are becoming international problems, becoming German problems, becoming American problems.
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Country Culture Fixed Global International More Problem
A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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Act Million Motivational Small Thought Wisdom Wise
Selling high or low doesn’t mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.
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Anything High Market Mean Purely Selling
Every day I’m learning something new from the practice. It’s very rewarding.
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Learning New Practice Rewarding Something
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

If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain

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