Hans Haacke Quotes
I have a particular interest in corporations that give themselves a cultural aura and are in other areas suspect. Philip Morris presents itself in New York as the lover of culture while it turns out that if you look behind the scenes, it is also a prime funder of Jesse Helms, someone who is very hostile to the arts.
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I like a man who looks like a bad boy but knows how to treat a woman like a queen.
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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.
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
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Ever since childhood, when I found out that the ultimate fate for all humans was death, sheer terror and morbid curiosity had been fighting for supremacy in my mind.
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.
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Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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I did ask Matt Damon for his autograph - and I got a picture, too!
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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The qubit acts as a bridge between the microscopic and the macroscopic worlds.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.
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At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn't do any work, yet it was so competitive.
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Europe's greatest problem is cultural relativism. This has led to a situation where Europeans no longer know what they should be proud of and who they really are because a so-called liberal and leftist-imposed concept says that all cultures are the same.
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I have a particular interest in corporations that give themselves a cultural aura and are in other areas suspect. Philip Morris presents itself in New York as the lover of culture while it turns out that if you look behind the scenes, it is also a prime funder of Jesse Helms, someone who is very hostile to the arts.
