Hans Haacke Quotes
Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
Quotes to Explore
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
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I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose.
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I was admittedly comfortable with Iman Cosmetics being identified as a beauty brand that filled the gap for black women because it was deeply personal for me.
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What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
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My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.
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Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
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The first president I met was L. B. J.
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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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One of two historically African American communities that sprang up along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after emancipation, North Gulfport has always been a place where residents have had fewer civic resources than those extended to other outlying communities.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?
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Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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I'm into menswear slacks that are comfortable.
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I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.
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I did two or three plays every summer.
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As I was working I noticed that the way I designed the differential gearing actually created a spare drive that sat directly below the emperor's feet, or where they would be if he were to sit in the chariot.
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I have to arrange my life very carefully. I need eight hours' sleep to work.
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The sin of Kibr (arrogance) is actually worse than many of the sins that we would be advising [other] people about.
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I don't know how to write or to be anything other than Bananarama-ish because that's who we are.
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We had all week to rehearse. An audience would come in at the end of the week and we'd our little show. Most of the ad- libbing happened during the week on the show.
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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
