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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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Selling high or low doesn't mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.

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I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat. I don't care if this is a great cultural event or a national symbol. It has nothing to do with me. It deals with the city.

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China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.

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

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

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For all the tough talk about China during the presidential debates, Romney and Obama evaded any mention of China's suspect human rights record, corruption, and rule of law. By not tackling these controversial topics, the candidates are protecting a strategic partnership with China at the expense of essential human values and beliefs.

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In the end, I think, the state's rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.

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By participating in the society we live in, we understand our conditions and the way we relate to the world.

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The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.

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I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable — how we decide what is valuable.

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Each year, more people want to become artists.

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That's why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify with it, which I always find myself very contradictory to.

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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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If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.

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My angst and my insecurity reflect the state's angst and insecurity. The state is scared too.

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I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.

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If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?

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A small act is worth a million thoughts.

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I want people to see their own power.

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