Nicholas Serota Quotes

Art should be transgressive. Life is not all sweet.

Nicholas Serota

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• I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Liberation

• If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • People
  • Want
  • Stop

• The harder you work, the luckier you get.

  

  Gary Player
  • Work
  • You
  • Harder

• I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Would
  • Fragrance
  • Fanatic

• When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • Team
  • Play
  • Church

• Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Great
  • Kids
  • You

• There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Different
  • Like
  • Working

• On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Achieve
  • Anger
  • Apology

• While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • American
  • War
  • Soldiers

• Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Deep
  • Very
  • New Years

• The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Good
  • Difficult
  • Solitude

• A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Important
  • Goal
  • Cap

• The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Women
  • Country
  • Struggle

• As a child, as a cinemagoer, I think there is nothing better than being in a cinema or watching a film. I think it's just a while magical... it almost feels like you're at a big party in India, where you're singing, you're dancing, you're laughing, you're crying, you feel like you're at a wedding because our films invariably cover all emotions.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Party
  • Singing
  • Child

• My style is very simple, but I love Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson and Kate Middleton.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • Simple
  • Style
  • Very

• What's weird is the Hot Boys and the whole New Orleans Cash Money thing had a really big impact on the Bay when that was popping off. I don't all the way understand it. I mean, I know that they were big everywhere and had a lot of commercial success in the mid to late '90s, but they were really, really felt in the Bay Area.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Money
  • Success
  • Weird

• It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Religion

• Making films can be very lonely, and that's the part I don't like. I don't want to feel like I'm pressing 'pause' on my personal life to make a movie. I want to feel like I'm still creating relationships and things are moving forward.

  

  Jessica Chastain
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Moving

• Obsess about customers, not competitors.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Customers
  • Competitors
  • Obsess

• We had a couple of films that, in the course of working on them, the budget shrank to the point where we couldn't make it. They literally ran the numbers: They took our numbers and the stars' numbers, and when they calculated whether we could make our money back or not, it said no.

  

  Valerie Faris
  • Money
  • Couple

• Paleoclimatic records show clearly that the past 10,000 years, the Holocene, is a remarkably stable period in which we went from being a few hunters and gatherers to become more sedentary agriculture-based civilizations, which then moved us to the current populated modern era.

  

  Johan Rockstrom
  • Past
  • Period

• Art should be transgressive. Life is not all sweet.

  

  Nicholas Serota
  • Life
  • Art
  • Sweet