Hans-Ulrich Obrist Quotes

At Performa in New York, there are a lot of commissions, but Manchester Festival is the only festival where everything is fully produced by the festival.

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• The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Music
  • Job
  • Sleep

• When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Mom
  • Go
  • Grapes

• The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Needs
  • Need
  • Nation

• I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Always
  • Sense
  • Curiosity

• Everybody has their ups and downs, and that's what makes you tougher.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • You
  • Ups And Downs
  • Ups

• I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Up
  • Why
  • Study

• I had to have shoulder reconstruction.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Shoulder
  • Reconstruction

• People say, 'Wow, you've achieved it all this year: two world championship wins and an Olympic gold medal.' And I think, 'Yeah, but how come I feel so unsatisfied and under pressure all over again?'

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • World
  • Gold

• The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.

  

  Adam Kluger
  • Music
  • Back
  • Aggressive

• Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Life
  • Strength
  • Run

• I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Beautiful
  • Inspired
  • Movies

• I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Me
  • Reading
  • Imagination

• It's been a career filled with very low valleys and some wonderful, high peaks.

  

  Pat Morita
  • High
  • Career
  • Very

• Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Career
  • Try
  • Ahead

• Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Energy
  • Concept
  • Anywhere

• We think that in Mexico, online trading of shares and financial instruments is not going to be as important as it is in the U.S. On days that there is a banking holiday in the U.S., you hardly see any movement here on the stock exchange.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Important
  • Think
  • Financial

• The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

  

  Ovid
  • Fortune
  • Prayers
  • Cowards

• Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • She
  • Fashion

• In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Death
  • New
  • Generation

• After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Me
  • New
  • Punk

• The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Liberty
  • New

• At Performa in New York, there are a lot of commissions, but Manchester Festival is the only festival where everything is fully produced by the festival.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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