Hans-Ulrich Obrist Quotes
When I was 17, I met many artists, and it started to become this conversation with artists out of which all of my exhibitions grew.
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I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.
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The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.
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They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers.
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Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.
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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
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Death is better than slavery.
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We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by ideas that regarded successful military operations as ends in themselves rather than just one instrument of power that must be coordinated with others to achieve - and sustain - political goals.
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Cobnuts have a fresher flavour than any other nut I know of and go very well with autumnal fruit and light cheeses.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration in Afghanistan to other areas as well.
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I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.
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I don't ever wish I was somebody else.
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People always say, 'You look like Iggy Pop.'
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Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.
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Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.
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One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.
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I'd have no problem kicking Tobey McGuire out of Spiderman because Spiderman has been my favorite superhero since I can possibly even remember having my first thought . I love Spiderman, but he does a great job so I'm going to have to find myself another superhero to become one day.
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We are ready to be criticised by any journalists because we know we are not perfect.
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The eighties was an era when many companies were asset rich and cash poor.
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When we look for differences instead of similarities, we create barriers for trust.
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When I was 17, I met many artists, and it started to become this conversation with artists out of which all of my exhibitions grew.
