Hans-Ulrich Obrist Quotes
It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.
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I still study dance, and it's definitely something I want to incorporate in the future. It's always been my first love.
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Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.
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I don't blame other people for the rap that Christians have. A lot of Christians are just mental. A lot of Christians are more concerned with telling you where you're gonna go when you die than what you can have while you're here.
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There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
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For me, seeing the target and not seeing the target doesn't make any difference.
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When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
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I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.
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To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public.
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They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.
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My first husband met me as a career woman, and the second did, too. I was lucky.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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'Material' is meant to be a fun, lighthearted song about the tiny bit of materialism that's in all of us. The message is meant to translate the notion that you don't need luxury items to feel special; you already are special.
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My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from the street. He was homeless, but eventually he got a car so he could sell from the boot. And by the 1980s, he was a millionaire wholesaling to companies like Topshop. So in a way, fashion put me in England.
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I'm not a good guitar player.
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I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.
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I want to caucus in Iowa. I'll caucus all over the state. I don't caucus in California. You don't caucus where you live. It doesn't look good.
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I just want you inside, baby, we don't need to talk about promises.
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It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.
