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.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

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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

• In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Children
  • American
  • Parents

• 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

• I became an actor in that important drama with an inflexible resolution to persevere through the last scene, when we might be permitted and acknowledged to enjoy what we had so nobly declared we would possess, or lose with our lives - Freedom and Independence!

  

  Deborah Sampson
  • Important
  • Freedom
  • Drama

• The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.

  

  William Cowper
  • Path
  • Sorrow
  • Land

• For avoiding nonsense in general, we might accumulate millions of censors. For all we know, this 'negative meta-knowledge' - about patterns of thought and inference that have been found defective or harmful - may be a large portion of all we know.

  

  Marvin Minsky
  • May
  • Knowledge

• And fighting the battle of life is fighting against fearful odds, too. There are giants and dragons in this nineteenth century, and the golden casket that they guard is not so easy to win as it appears in the story-books.

  

  Jerome K. Jerome
  • Life
  • Fighting

• 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