Hans-Ulrich Obrist Quotes
I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
Salvador Dali
In India, it is difficult for a cricketer to show that he is under some kind of stress. Here, you can only retire when you don't want to play anymore, or the motivation is lacking.
Harbhajan Singh
Everybody gets dressed every day, and whatever you decide to get dressed in that morning is communicating something.
Hailey Gates
Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
If the day comes where I can have my own action figure... I defy any actor to say that's not a good day.
Owain Yeoman
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
H. L. Mencken
I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
Carl Sandburg
Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
Lael Brainard
I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.
Vera Wang
I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
Obiageli Ezekwesili
Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There's not many athletes that can be at my level. That was kind of hard finding people who love something so much they want to keep on doing it.
Sally Pearson
Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
Larry Wilmore
England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.
Fidel Castro
Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
W. Somerset Maugham
If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
Nick Cave
The Birthday Party
The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
Irving Stone
We were doing the dance routine and I dislocated my knee. I've been doing stunts for a long time and it's kind of weird that I'd dislocate my knee just dancing.
Verne Troyer
I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
