Tino Sehgal Quotes

My father had to flee from what is today Pakistan when he was a child, and he became a manager at IBM, and any item of consumption he would acquire was a direct measurement of his success in life. But that same equation wasn't going to work for me - I was quite clear about that in my early teens.

Tino Sehgal

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• When I watch Rumble Johnson, he's a bully. He bullies guys. He makes them go backward, and he traps them. I'm not going to allow that. If he tries to bully me, I'll stand right in front of him, and if he hits me, I'll hit him right back. And then we'll see how the bully handles it when nobody is going to run away from him.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Right
  • Him
  • Bully

• A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.

  

  Adam Draper
  • You
  • Succeed
  • Where

• Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that we do that?' It's a way of reaching out.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Saying

• Running for me is a sport. It's not a joke. It's serious.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Me
  • Running
  • Serious

• Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • New
  • Fault
  • Globalization

• If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Discipline
  • Criticism

• My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening.

  

  Zoe Wanamaker
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Father

• I am a classic 'Star Trek' fanatic.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Fanatic
  • Star Trek

• I think D.C. has always been very, very vibrant for food. Like Boston in a way. Boston and D.C. were really the two cities that were the most active with their local chefs and their local food scene.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Think
  • Way
  • Food

• I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am a bit doubtful and wary of true happiness, and, like a lot of my friends, there's been a good degree of self-sabotage.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Good
  • Friends
  • True

• For the first time in 6,000 years of human history, we can have peer-to-peer exchange where trust is not a problem anymore. And it's through the technology that underlies bitcoin. It's called the block chain.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Time
  • History
  • Technology

• I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision …

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Great
  • God
  • Men

• Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according to the one who conceives. Find out who you are and the other problem will solve itself.

  

  Ramana Maharshi

• Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• ‘When I say 'mind,'’ said the blood relation, ‘I refer to the quarter-teaspoonful of brain which you might possibly find in her head if you sank an artesian well.’

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Mind
  • Brain

• The male image has been so pulled down by situation comedy in the last 15 years, it is frightening. I don't like what has happened to the American male.

  

  Bill Bixby
  • American
  • Comedy

• I can talk to more persuadable voters in a week on 'The Five' than I could at CNN in a year, so it's worked out fine.

  

  Bob Beckel

• I just think the word interview, although it is the view between two people exchanged, became a sort of cliche. You ask questions and the other one answers.

  

  Maximilian Schell
  • People

• Hulu understood how much content costs. By remaining defensive, YouTube is losing various aspects of video - long-form, for example - to other companies.

  

  Freddie Wong
  • Long

• As corny as it sounds, I'm often pinching myself going, 'What great opportunities and great parts and great people that I've gotten to work with.'

  

  Chris Messina
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive.

  

  Lynn Nottage
  • Women
  • Mother
  • Warrior

• The only reason anyone ever called me a hero is because I get this paper, here.

  

  Kyle Chandler
  • Hero

• We've gotten to the point now where Republicans and Democrats have nothing in common besides being members of the 'caustic caucus,' and we can't get anything done.

  

  Emanuel Cleaver
  • Done

• My father had to flee from what is today Pakistan when he was a child, and he became a manager at IBM, and any item of consumption he would acquire was a direct measurement of his success in life. But that same equation wasn't going to work for me - I was quite clear about that in my early teens.

  

  Tino Sehgal
  • Children
  • Father
  • Today