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Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.

Ai Weiwei

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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
Architect
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Human Rights Activist
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Peking
Wei-wei Ai
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I can still wake up the next day and feel that there's something that needs to be done, which always amuses me.
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I'm a free man now, except I cannot leave China. You know, I have no desire to travel. I have so many things to do I cannot finish them now.
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My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.
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It's always the rich and there's plenty to waste, yet still China has a lot of people living in very spare, poor conditions.
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For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.
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I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it. 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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The Internet changes the structure of society all the time — this massiveness made of individuals.
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If Shakespeare were alive today, he might be writing on Twitter.
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I think U.S. and China is a big opportunity, to be seen as partner or some kind of strategic partner maybe. But those kind of powers have a way of getting too big, then we'll have competition. And 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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Imagine one day, the hateful world around you collapses. And it is your attitude, words and actions that put an end to it. Will you be excited?
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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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My mother became much older when I came out (ed's note: of detention). She had problems with her hearing and high blood pressure. But they still support me.
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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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A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.
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Each year, more people want to become artists.
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I don't belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.
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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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If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.
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The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It's as simple as that.
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