Hans-Ulrich Obrist Quotes

Our economy's growth functions by inciting us to produce more and more with each passing year. In turn, we require cultural forms to enable us to sort through the glut, and our rituals are once again directed towards the immaterial, towards quality and not quantity.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

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My dad made a huge impact on me in terms of right and wrong.

Jim Pattison

MeImpactWrongRightMadeHuge

Were it not for Jackie Robinson, Branch Rickey would be remembered, if at all, as a Bible-thumping midwestern Methodist windbag who neither played baseball on Sundays when he was a mediocre catcher for the St. Louis Browns and the New York Highlanders, nor attended games on the Sabbath as a baseball executive.

John Gregory Dunne

BaseballNew YorkNewGamesSabbath

I've lived publicly and never hidden behind closed doors. Therefore, if I have gone over the top sometimes, it has been visible.

John Hurt

DoorsSometimesHiddenNeverTop

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Robert Louis Stevenson

LifeGoodBusinessSucceedFailOur

I'm in favor of inequality if it comes about from people making great innovations that make us all better off. And I think those people deserve to be rich. But the people who get rich by lobbying the Congress to give them special protections that come out of the hides of the workers seems to be a bad idea.

Angus Deaton

GreatPeopleRichThinkBetterBad

Your body begins to change when it burns and shakes... so when an exercise is challenging, I always think 'feel your body changing.'

Stacy Keibler

ChangeThinkFeelExerciseBody

Movies are not finished. They are abandoned. A movie is never finished.

Louis Leterrier

MoviesNeverAbandonedFinished

The combine's a great experience, and I'm sure everyone will tell you the same thing. Cool experience, lots of fun, would never want to do it again.

Jared Goff

GreatExperienceFunCoolYouWant

To me, acting is all about hard work and talent. Once you get your first wrinkle, if you are a female actress, nobody will care about what you look like - it's all about what you can do.

Dominik Garcia-Lorido

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Access to information, to music or any kind of culture, is getting faster and faster and more streamlined. At each juncture, people are thrown into tumult and have to adapt or die.

Colson Whitehead

MusicCulturePeopleDieInformation

Though I respect hugely the effort and the care and the beauty of games, I want to be working with people who want to create the 'War & Peace' of games, the 'Citizen Kane' of games, and not just be warming up George Romero.

Clive Barker

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I love to create looks. It's just like you're a different character every day.

Pom Klementieff

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