Hans-Ulrich Obrist Quotes
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It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.
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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
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I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.
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I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.
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It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.
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The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.
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I love vintage cowboy boots, and some days I'm into platform stilettos encrusted in jewels. It's really all over the place.
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Doing a TV show is different because it's more of a TV version of something. A more focused take on things.
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I love being able to take a nap in the afternoon.
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People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.
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Actors in general have some place in them that can be sensitive and easily damaged: not damaged in a bad way, but insecurity, because that's what it breeds, especially in females and female-lead types.
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
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I'd rather be known for my accomplishments, and for things that I really do take pride in, rather than known for this doll-like image I had when I was a child.
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I could never take orders from anyone.
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I don't take myself too seriously.
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If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
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I cannot imagine a more enjoyable place to work than in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology where I work.
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The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in Iraq. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.
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Those wretches who never have experienced the sweets of wisdom and virtue, but spend all their time in revels and debauches, sink downward day after day, and make their whole life one continued series of errors.
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I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices.
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Exhibitions usually are not collected; they disperse after they take place.
