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

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China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice. Everybody can be subjected to harm. I'm just a citizen: my life is equal in value to any other. But I'm thankful that when I lost my freedom so many people shared feelings and put such touching effort into helping me.

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Life is much more interesting when you make a little bit of effort.

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Recently I danced in a video spoof of the song 'Gangnam Style,' and it was quickly banned across multiple Chinese online video platforms. But the story still traveled all over the world, carried in hundreds of international media reports.

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I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it. They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own - cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.

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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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The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.

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Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.

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

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I'm doing quite a few things now. In one day, I will go to Kassel, Germany, for a documentary project I've been preparing for half a year. I will bring 1,001 Chinese to participate as my artwork there - any Chinese who is a Chinese passport holder and over eighteen years old could apply through my blog. I'm just bringing them to Kassel to see the art show, and pay their room and board.

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There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.

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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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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.

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The rest of the world understands little about China's changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.

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The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself

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I don't think I was very structured in that society and I don't really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.

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Many people are going to use [Beijing National Stadium], which makes it more meaningful. If we don't design it, somebody else has to design it.

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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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I don't believe in the so-called Olympic spirit. I speak from personal experience. When China hosted the Games, it failed to include the people. The event was constructed without regard for their joy.

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The United States is a melting pot. Like John F. Kennedy said, it's a nation of immigrants. But Donald Trump wants to build a fence that clearly makes the statement: "You and I are divided. We're different, and you're dangerous." That kind of thinking stops human, civilized evolution. It's dangerous to create that kind of tension.

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