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You're still being looked at as somebody who - it's a very complicated issue.

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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
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If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.
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I have to find a place for my own. I have to search for my own happiness.
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It [success] is really by mistake.
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This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.
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Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart...
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Our lives are bound by physical limits, familial ties, political conditions, and geographical restrictions. Individual freedom takes us beyond them all.
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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 lot of the time [in the U.S.], I was thinking about how spending time is always questionable or is always the biggest obstacle in my life.
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I also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.
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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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We should also leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth and corrodes mankind's belief that we can better ourselves. The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern and good intentions.
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I don't think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by his independent individualism. 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 American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.
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Everything is selected by the central government without good judgment or an understanding of culture to make it really safe. They will become nobody to maintain their power and be raised to the next higher level.
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The world is sphere, has no East or West.
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If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.
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This world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the quality of their lives.
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