Hans-Ulrich Obrist Quotes
When I was a kid and started to be obsessed by art in the 1980s, the art world was in this polarity Warhol/Beuys, Beuys/Warhol. Both expended the notion of art extremely, but in very different ways.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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Everybody loves a villain - let's face it.
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The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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I put my friends and family first. I'm really just a normal thirteen-year-old girl who has a different hobby than most girls my age. Acting is kind of an extracurricular activity.
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When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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Blip.tv is growing its audience by forming partnerships with traditional TV manufacturers and a new breed of company in the set-top box market that lets consumers connect to the Internet via their televisions.
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I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for the morning, one for night. Sometimes I have a couple shades just in case I need something more powerful for the day.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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I was really blessed with parents who never said I couldn't do anything. And now I reflect as an adult on that, 'Wow, they never told me no!'
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We own the economy. We own the beginning of the turnaround and we want to make sure that we continue that pace of recovery, not go back to the policies of the past under the Bush administration that put us in the ditch in the first place.
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It's not that I don't feel bad about it. It's just that I don't feel worse today than what I felt yesterday.
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World War II was the last government program that really worked.
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I've always been kind of a voyeur.
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When I was a kid and started to be obsessed by art in the 1980s, the art world was in this polarity Warhol/Beuys, Beuys/Warhol. Both expended the notion of art extremely, but in very different ways.
