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Life is much more interesting when you make a little bit of effort.

Ai Weiwei

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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
Architect
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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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In the '80s, you couldn't walk in the neighborhood without looking back to see if anyone was following you. You had your key in your hand before you got to your apartment and you'd rush in so you didn't have to stop.
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I was an illegal alien for many, many years. I couldn't move. If I moved I could not even get a visa back.
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A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise it’s incomplete.
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Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind. A fairy tale has come true.
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You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.
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Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.
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I don't think China should care if this crazy old guy should have a show here or not. You have so many museums in the West, and so many shows, you need somebody to show the work, otherwise it's empty.
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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. It's very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.
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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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If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain
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