Robert Wilson Quotes

I had no idea I was going to have a career in the theater. I did not plan it.

Robert Wilson

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• Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Up
  • Country
  • Art

• Books are up against TV and movies and video games and a multimedia society that is so busy that people don't have contemplative time any more. I worry deeply about this. In fact, I worry about everything all the time. I used to be a punk. All I wanted to do was tear everything down, and that was so much easier.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Legislature

• I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • World
  • Matter
  • Seeing

• I think that if you're improvising on TV, it's a great way to help the dialogue between actors and writers.

  

  Zach Woods
  • Great
  • Help
  • Think

• According to our estimates, the Hungarians working in the U.K. altogether pay more contributions and taxes than the benefits that they get. So we belong to the world of the fair working people.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • World
  • Taxes

• To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.

  

  X. J. Kennedy
  • Free
  • Black
  • Color

• I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Man
  • Leading
  • Archetypal

• I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.

  

  J. Cole
  • Different
  • Best
  • Like

• My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • She
  • Small
  • Grandmother

• 'Firelight' is a beautiful story about a lot of young women. My character, Caroline, is a girl who has a bad boyfriend, and he ends up getting her locked up and incarcerated.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Up
  • Women
  • Character

• Men who are not loyal to their wives are foolish.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Men
  • Loyal
  • Wives

• When two sympatric, closely related species appear to have very similar needs, we may ask whether mechanisms exist that enable them to avoid direct competition. Implicit in this questions the presumption that two species with identical requirements cannot coexist (Gause 1934).

  

  Carl Safina
  • May
  • Competition

• The Lord may not come when you want Him, but he's always going to be there on time.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.
  • Time
  • May

• Imagine having all of your freedoms taken away, being forced to work against your will, and constantly living under the threat of violence - in short, being forced to live as a slave. Sadly, this situation is a reality for millions of children, women, and men each year as part of the global human trafficking industry.

  

  Bill Flores
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• I'm such a fan of the Obamas in general, and I love how dignified and charismatic and how intelligent they are. They are so warm and kind and encouraging, especially of young people, and I really love seeing that.

  

  Sara Bareilles
  • People
  • Intelligent
  • Encouraging

• It's a long season, and if you can go back and forth pretty well, you'll end up OK.

  

  Andrew Benintendi
  • Up
  • Long
  • Pretty

• It's hard when you win the title to not think, 'I'm here. Now what do I do?'

  

  Eddie Alvarez

• Actually, my parents were separated by the time I was about 2 years old.

  

  Christie Hefner
  • Time
  • Parents

• I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Children
  • Purpose
  • Optimistic

• It really comes down to being able to inspire others by being comfortable with yourself. You have to show girls that everyone is different; everyone has things they don't like, but they work it and walk the runway.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Work
  • Different
  • Yourself

• For many, long-term friendships, rather than family ties, are the foundations for sustainable lives.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Long
  • Family
  • Friendships

• So that’s that, Barney said to himself. I violated Rule One of career-oriented functioning: never tell your superior something he doesn’t want to hear.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Career

• I had no idea I was going to have a career in the theater. I did not plan it.

  

  Robert Wilson
  • Career
  • Idea
  • Theater