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Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man.

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I was in the most restricted prison in China, the most tough. The design of the prison is modeled for internal crimes of the Communist party, so it's like a mafia family's law. It's independent to the law this nation openly applies. It's the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.

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You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.

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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.

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Whenever there is injustice, there is tension. But in China it is very hard to release your anger unless you burn yourself or you jump from a bridge. In a society where there is no freedom of the press, it is difficult for victims to be noticed.

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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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If Shakespeare were alive today, he might be writing on Twitter.

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New York has given me a lot, but I still don't consider it home.

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As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.

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Many people I know - writers, poets - they have all been sentenced not once but sometimes three times after they come out. They serve five or six years, come out another time, and then nine years. Come out again, 12 years. Only because they have a different opinion. They are innocent people, they have beautiful minds, beautiful hearts.

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A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.

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I don't think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn't be nervous about that.

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You see so many people doing quite nice and respectful work, but nobody like Warhol. Warhol is outstanding. I think he has a value that is far from fully understood. He's very special for younger generations.

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Growing up, my family was an enemy of the state. I have experienced more disappointment than joy, much more sad stories or desperate conditions.

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I think it's more important to show your work to the public.

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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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Society becomes very destructive.

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There are many cases and layers of racist behavior in the US - from police treatment to the issues of education and job opportunities. In America, however, such cases are being discussed publically.

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All movies in China are censored. Out of 600 movies produced in China, only 60 are allowed to show in theatres.

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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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