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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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People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It's an unbearable condition.
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I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.
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Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of what the future was going to be like.
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The IT people who have made such an effort to know and understand computer technology. They are frustrated that you cannot use Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in China. They are the first to recognize that the situation is terrible.
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I never had a sense of home.
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The United States is a melting pot. Like John F. Kennedy said, it's a nation of immigrants. But Donald Trump wants to build a fence that clearly makes the statement: You and I are divided. We're different, and you're dangerous. That kind of thinking stops human, civilized evolution. It's dangerous to create that kind of tension.
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If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.
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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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If there's the right condition, I always want to express the concept or ideas in a very independent way.
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The so-called culture nowadays is only a fake one with a superficial front. It is an empty lie.
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Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
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Twitter is the people’s tool, the tool of the ordinary people, people who have no other resources.
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I'm totally independent. I don't bear any responsibility to any system.
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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.
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In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.
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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 purpose of art is the fight for freedom.
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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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My musician friends are banned from playing concerts in China because they share the same views as I do. My name cannot appear on the web, because my opinion is different from the Party.
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