Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.
AI WEIWEIAnd who is going to win the competition if U.S. cannot hold a strong ideology? And even the U.S. would’ve lost the ground to win.
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And the kind of condition he had when he was in this society – the kind of mistreatment society gave him.
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The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it…it’s very disturbing.
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Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.
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If my art has nothing to do with people’s pain and sorrow, what is ‘art’ for?
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It [success] is really by mistake.
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Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
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If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.
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Through my work and ways of expression, I strive to engage in dialogue with the society that I am living in.
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Mass production is nothing new. Weren’t cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?
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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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I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it.
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The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.
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If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I’m saying is common sense.
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Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.
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You know about the fantasies related to the classics, but there is no real discussion about today’s life and no discussion of the real conditions – which is really sickening.
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