Hans-Ulrich Obrist Quotes

I would go from one city to the next, inspired by the monks in the Middle Ages, who would carry knowledge from one monastery to the next monastery.

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• There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Kids
  • First
  • New

• He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Two
  • Editors
  • Review

• At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Trying
  • Experience
  • Challenge

• Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Life
  • Black
  • Culture

• Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Goals

• The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • People
  • Truth
  • American

• I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Remember
  • Like
  • Really

• The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Truth
  • Brain
  • Details

• I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • Up
  • Time
  • Nature

• On a personal level, I love the idea of hosting an awards show. I think that sounds like kind of a fun thing to do.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Fun
  • Like
  • Idea

• I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.

  

  Vida Blue
  • Kids
  • Nice
  • Myself

• I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Age
  • Working
  • Lucky

• Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • People
  • Like
  • Irish

• Actor's life is very long.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Life
  • Long
  • Actor

• I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Children
  • Sharp
  • Stairs

• Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Respect
  • Understand
  • Try

• It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Couple
  • Difficult
  • Now

• The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Life
  • Men
  • Poet

• And once you say this is true, you start naming the beast that hurts you - so I started doing this. Other truths come out.

  

  Terry Gross
  • True
  • Hurt
  • Beast

• What I always liked about Socrates was his insistence on questioning things for the sake of reaching some sort of clarity - even if it is only clarity about the gaps in our knowledge.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Knowledge
  • Always
  • Clarity

• We want to shine a light on this great city of Baltimore. I can tell you, I love this city.

  

  Kevin Plank
  • Great
  • Light
  • City

• Truly to escape Hegel involves an exact appreciation of the price we have to pay to detach ourselves from him. It assumes that we are aware of the extent to which Hegel, insidiously perhaps, is close to us; it implies a knowledge, in that which permits us to think against Hegel, of that which remains Hegelian. We have to determine the extent to which our anti-Hegelianism is possibly one of his tricks directed against us, at the end of which he stands, motionless, waiting for us.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Think
  • Knowledge
  • Price

• The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again.

  

  Steve Ross
  • Heart
  • City
  • Church

• I would go from one city to the next, inspired by the monks in the Middle Ages, who would carry knowledge from one monastery to the next monastery.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Knowledge
  • City
  • Inspired