Ai Weiwei Quotes, Ties Quotes, Political Quotes

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 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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Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much.

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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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The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.

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Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.

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Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.

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I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.

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I am everywhere and I am nowhere. That's the beauty of the Internet Age.

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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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I want people to see their own power.

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Because Great Britain has self-confidence, it doesn't need a monumental Olympics.

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I call on people to be 'obsessed citizens,' forever questioning and asking for accountability. That's the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.

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

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We move so fast that memory is something we can only grasp

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I don't think there is a distinct change, because in the West I'm not a person who can serve his purpose.

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It's really rubbish that some kind of "technical" learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.

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Expressing oneself is like a drug. I'm so addicted to it.

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This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years. People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China's relationship with the outside world.

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I think I'm just a traveler. When you walk across a river and there's no bridge, you build one. I'm used to having to deal with Chinese Communist ideology - it's not really an ideology, but a method of control. But China's problems are not just China's problems - they're human problems. Humanity has always worked better when you see it as one.

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