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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Here I was, this good guy that played football; I was gonna go play in college but I had a bad senior year. But I played guitar in assemblies whenever I could.
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I’ll try to do anything to win a game.
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...a professor in one of the great female colleges. That odious form is common, and I submit and use it, though it offends me as much as it would to say female brickbat or female snow-storm or female geography.
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As soon as I hear the word 'competition' I get serious and start doing everything that I can do.
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If inflation continues to soar, you're going to have to work like a dog just to live like one.
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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.
