Hans-Ulrich Obrist Quotes
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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
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I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.
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I love to watch 'Chopped,' 'Jeopardy,' and 'Breaking Bad.' You can't pass up that one. Oh! One other show I love to watch is 'Suburgatory.'
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I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.
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When I sing, people shut up.
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I think the three Mexican directors - Alejandro Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro - gave all of us foreign, and particularly Latino, directors a big break.
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You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.
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I've repeatedly voted for sanctions against Iran. And I think all options should be on the table to prevent them from having nuclear weapons.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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Most things I get hired on, I get hired because I improvise something funny, or they just think I look weird.
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I get the 'The New York Times' and 'Los Angeles Times' thrown at my door every morning. I'll read the front page of 'The New York Times,' then the op-eds, then scan the arts section and then the sports section. Then I do the same with the 'L.A. Times.'
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I do think Jesus would skip church on Sunday morning and instead visit the nursing homes and retirement homes where so many have abandoned their loved ones.
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Julia Child wasn't afraid to have fun. She made fantastic food but knew how to have a good time and not be too stuck up about the kitchen space.
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Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.
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I think sci-fi films have become rather bleak, and understandably so - I think we've made some big mistakes globally with how we're developing, and we deal with that guilt by creating these very dystopian futures in films.
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If I like something, I will pick it up from anywhere and wear it. I don't believe that only branded stuff looks good on you. If it doesn't look good in my eyes, I'll never wear it.
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I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.
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I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward.
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I grew up in Los Angeles when the racial tensions between blacks and Mexicans were very high. Gang violence was very prevalent.
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I've never really been concerned about being typecast, for me it's just about enjoying my work and being very professional in taking things on.
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You know, I've been playing with my hair color ever since I was nine.
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Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.
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At that moment he knew what his mother was thinking, and that she loved him. But he knew, too, that to love someone means relatively little; or, rather, that love is never strong enough to find the words befitting it. Thus he and his mother would always love each other silently. And one day she – or he – would die, without ever, all their lives long, having gone farther than this by way of making their affection known.
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I don't wake up in the morning and think about Franz Kline.
