Hans-Ulrich Obrist Quotes
For me, the making of exhibitions has always had to do with dialogue: a concentrated, in-depth, focused dialogue with artists, who keep teaching me that exhibitions should always invent new rules for the game.
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
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I was an expert horseman.
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I've always wanted to do a period piece.
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The only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.
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It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
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Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
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One way to reduce the need for layoffs would be to cut back on hours, spreading the available work among more employees.
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Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.
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Those of us raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than lines at other orientations. In contrast, people raised in nomadic tribes do a better job noticing lines skewed at intermediate angles, since Mother Nature tends to work with a wider array of lines than most architects.
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During past years, like frightened children, we were afraid to eat the strong meat of human rights and instead sucked the milk of civil rights from the breasts of white liberals, black Uncle Toms, and Aunt Jemimas.
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
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No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace our steps to see how we ended up where we are.
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
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If you want to know what you were conditioned to believe as a child, look at how you treat yourself now.
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They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.
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My proposal to re-establish diplomatic relations - not necessarily friendly relations, but diplomatic relations - is a sensible, simple, and straightforward approach that will finally get us off dead center.
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For me, the making of exhibitions has always had to do with dialogue: a concentrated, in-depth, focused dialogue with artists, who keep teaching me that exhibitions should always invent new rules for the game.
