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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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For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.

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Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.

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In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.

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I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.

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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that. There are crises and emergencies all the time, we might not even be aware of some. But I am afraid we'll have to wait and observe precisely what the government is up to.

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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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China hasn't only existed for one day. Now, the whole nation has become richer and it's become a problem. The problem is universal. The factor is big. Everybody has to rethink the balance of the world and the whole landscape.

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I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.

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Through my work and ways of expression, I strive to engage in dialogue with the society that I am living in.

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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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If it's possible, I will have some noodles in the morning and start talking to people, start to think about a few things in my head - the project or a few ideas which are not finished or if there are possible directions and what will lead into another game. It's always like setting up some kind of game you can continuously play.

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I'm totally independent. I don't bear any responsibility to any system.

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I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.

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The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it...it's very disturbing.

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Otherwise, I think the building can be bigger, larger, and the city can be much more crazy. The problem is the government structure is so deadly stupid, not really solving problems but creating a lot of problems itself every day.

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I never felt like a Chinese citizen because I was pushed away at a very young age. My father, a writer, was a national enemy of the Communist Party. He was forbidden to write for 20 years. We literally lived underground. We dug a hole and lived there for years. My father cleaned public toilets, even though he was a highly respected poet. Nationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.

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If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain

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We never really see the global situation as a total situation. Today's political leaders are still lacking of the vision. They very often just try to cope with their own election, their own popularity, solving the problem or selling the ideas to meet their own voters. By doing that, it creates a great imbalance in terms of making deals or treaty or all those things. Even today the borders they're seeing the physical borders are very different from the political borders. Because all those powers are so connected, and you cannot even see whose interest in what move.

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This is a very general understanding of art in China, that being an artist can make you money and turn you into a star.

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