Pontus Hulten Quotes
American museums have become cautious, because it is very hard to get money to do something different or controversial.
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Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.
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The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.
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I live in a state of hypersensitivity, and I've always had this feeling that something bad is going to happen to myself, or my wife and children. This manifests itself in different fears and visions.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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I truly believe diversity is beauty.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
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The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
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I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
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Politicians - in both political parties - spend too much money. And they forget to focus on what matters most: fixing the economic mess they created and putting people back to work.
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Evictions used to be rare in this country. They used to draw crowds. There are scenes in literature where you can come upon an eviction - like, in 'Invisible Man' there's the famous eviction scene in Harlem, and people are gathered around, and they move the family back in.
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I need to be bad. I don't want to burn out. I also don't want to be a person who is always performance-oriented. I also want to have some fun.
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I simply believe that food is a human right.
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That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them.
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American museums have become cautious, because it is very hard to get money to do something different or controversial.
