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I think you can give meaning to any condition you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don't think that it would give an individual human being a better condition.

Ai Weiwei

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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
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I don't like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.
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I think Donald Trump should cool down a little bit. To pay more attention to the history. To really understand what U.S.'s value is about. I think, as a president, those things you always have to ask.
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Society becomes very destructive.
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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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If I look at it, I would laugh. I don't know how I became successful.
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If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.
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My image of what a city should be - the super-rich and all the poor and desperate and the people who have some kind of a desire. It's a surviving game, people trying to survive on many different levels.
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Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.
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I never had a sense of home.
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I am everywhere and I am nowhere. That's the beauty of the Internet Age.
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...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.
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If a society cannot even support somebody like me, then people ask: Who is under protection then? That's why there is such support for me. It is not because I am so beautiful or I am so charming. People feel: This guy is fighting for us.
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When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.
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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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