Hans-Ulrich Obrist Quotes

Our economy's growth functions by inciting us to produce more and more with each passing year. In turn, we require cultural forms to enable us to sort through the glut, and our rituals are once again directed towards the immaterial, towards quality and not quantity.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

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• I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Life
  • Moving
  • Moving On

• My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.

  

  T-Pain
  • Good
  • Trying
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• Jay Townsend has offered, and I have accepted, his resignation from his position with my campaign. Now let's return to talking about issues that really matter to families: job creation, spending restraint and economic development.

  

  Nan Hayworth
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• It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to renounce the most fundamental American values, which, after all, are also universal values.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Important
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• Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Religion
  • Human
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• I think Gadi Eizenkot is a very good commander.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Good
  • Think
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• Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Life
  • Better

• Village cricket spread fast through the land.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Fast
  • Cricket
  • Village

• There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.

  

  Iris Chang
  • People
  • Start
  • Chinese

• I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Different
  • Words
  • Years

• I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • People
  • World
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• I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Myself
  • Decision
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• Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Nature
  • Body
  • Gym

• I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Good
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• I certainly have a pretty settled pattern at this point of what I do substantively in terms of reviewing briefs, record materials, cases, etc.

  

  Patricia Millett
  • Pretty
  • Point
  • Materials

• I'm on a lot of airplanes, so I just sip on red wine thinking of stupid ideas and, when I think of it, I wanna make it happen.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Thinking
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• The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Being
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  • Intensity

• I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Proud
  • Myself
  • Thought

• I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Want
  • Decisions
  • Option

• It was thinking about Casagemas's death that started me painting in blue.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Thinking
  • Death
  • Painting

• -'What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?' There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Time
  • Matter
  • Ties

• Sound public finances are the essential foundation on which to construct a better-balanced economy from the wreckage of Labour's boom and bust. But it is economic growth that will create the jobs and the prosperity for the future and enable us to pay down Labour's debt.

  

  Philip Hammond
  • Future
  • Growth

• I do believe that banks are special - they are very leveraged institutions by nature; therefore, it's even more critical to ensure that the governance and the process of running a banking company are well-organised, managed and regulated.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Believe
  • Nature
  • Running

• Our economy's growth functions by inciting us to produce more and more with each passing year. In turn, we require cultural forms to enable us to sort through the glut, and our rituals are once again directed towards the immaterial, towards quality and not quantity.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Quality
  • Growth
  • Year