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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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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Every school should have well-rehearsed emergency response protocols covering a variety of possible scenarios, from fire to armed intruders. Schools should have good lines of communications with local emergency response officials and practice those relationships in drills and special exercises.
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Send for a clergyman, I wish to be baptised. I have been basely murdered.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
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Nobody listened. Nobody took any notice of Mrs Wilkins. She was the kind of person who is not noticed at parties. Her clothes, infested by thrift, made her practically invisible, her face was non-arresting, her conversation was reluctant, she was shy. And if one’s clothes and face and conversation are all negligible, though Mrs Wilkins – who recognised her disabilities – what, at parties, is there left of one?
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In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the work itself.
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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.
