Hans-Ulrich Obrist quote: "One of my favourite exhibitions is called 'Do It,' which I co-curated with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 21 years ago."

I started going to exhibitions in Switzerland when I was 10 or 11. As a schoolboy, I would go every ...
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST

I really do think artists are the most important people on the planet, and if what I do is a utility...
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST

My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He wa...
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST

I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops....
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST

I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I ...
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST

Our economy's growth functions by inciting us to produce more and more with each passing year. I...
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST

Everything I do is somehow connected to velocity.
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST

At a certain time, an artist needs a big retrospective. At other times, they need a more focused exh...
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST

There is nothing deeper than to work for a year with the same artist.
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST

For me, the idea of curating can be expanded. Curating science, curating art, music and theater and ...
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST

My job is art curator, not artist. All I have ever wanted to do is immerse myself in art, to enjoy i...
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST

I always have coffee and porridge for breakfast.
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST

I'm trying to expand the notion of curating. Exhibitions need not only take place in galleries, ...
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST

I think the art fair is very much a form of urbanism. I think something really happens to the cities...
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST

In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely r...
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST

The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality.
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST

I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for ...
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST

I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist...
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST

I would go from one city to the next, inspired by the monks in the Middle Ages, who would carry know...
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST

Numerous are the posthumous museums and memorials devoted exclusively to one artist, architect or au...
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST

I spent 250 to 300 days of every year on the road. But in the end, I felt something was missing. I n...
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST

It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that ...
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST

Making art is not the matter of a moment, and nor is making an exhibition; curating follows art.
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST

Exhibitions usually are not collected; they disperse after they take place.
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST

For me, the making of exhibitions has always had to do with dialogue: a concentrated, in-depth, focu...
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST

Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model...
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST

To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it...
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST

Exhibitions are kind of ephemeral moments, sometimes magic moments, and when they're gone, they&...
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST

I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books....
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST

Mr. Koons's work has always inspired architects, which I think is very interesting. I think he i...
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST

During my time at high school and university in Kreuzlingen and St. Gallen, I traveled around Europe...
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST

I have many intense friendships with artists. I don't mean we have intense one-day conversations...
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST

I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; ...
ULRICH WALTER

Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I...
ULRICH WALTER

Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the...
ULRICH BECK

When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open bor...
ULRICH BECK

But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived...
ULRICH BECK

I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it...
ULRICH BECK

I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not onl...
ULRICH BECK

This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such...
ULRICH BECK

And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.
ULRICH BECK

Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.
ULRICH BECK

You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are pre...
ULRICH BECK

In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a comm...
ULRICH BECK

Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, ...
ULRICH BECK

You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
ULRICH BECK

Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlle...
ULRICH BECK

Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they...
ULRICH BECK

And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given ris...
ULRICH BECK

You could say that we are living in an internally globalized country.
ULRICH BECK

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.
ULRICH BECK

And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually at...
ULRICH BECK

We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered...
ULRICH BECK

That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wan...
ULRICH BECK

We are living in a world that is beyond controllability.
ULRICH BECK

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. I...
ULRICH BECK

Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even t...
ULRICH BECK

The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can ...
ULRICH BECK

The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, inde...
ULRICH BECK

Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.
LARS ULRICH

The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.
LARS ULRICH

Everytime we put a record out, we lose people that can't deal with the growth.
LARS ULRICH

As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica.
LARS ULRICH

Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music si...
LARS ULRICH

One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.
LARS ULRICH

Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
LARS ULRICH

What's the message in Metallica? There is no message, but if there was a message, it really shou...
LARS ULRICH

I'm just sittin here trying not to be unhappy.
LARS ULRICH

If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.
LARS ULRICH

I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses a...
SKEET ULRICH

Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, bu...
ULRICH BECK

At least believe this many humans, who are interested obviously in this topic. Many of them visited ...
ULRICH WALTER

I guess I'm a little charmed. I never thought this would happen so quick.
SKEET ULRICH

I think when someone becomes an actor, people say, Aw, you could see it in him when he was little. B...
SKEET ULRICH

were below our expectations.
BOB ULRICH

We are extremely pleased with our overall results for fiscal 2001, particularly the strength of our ...
BOB ULRICH

If the law is bad, then the city should have the guts to go ahead and change it instead of pretendin...
BOB ULRICH

This exceptional third-quarter momentum, combined with our outlook for more modest earnings growth i...
BOB ULRICH

I ask you to enforce the law by seizing these illegal goods and arresting the offenders.
BOB ULRICH

We would like to thank Jerry for his contributions and wish him the best in his future endeavors,
BOB ULRICH

Our same-store sales growth in the month of August was slightly above our planned range for the mont...
BOB ULRICH

Well, let's see. It looks like about $2.59.
BOB ULRICH

Company same-store sales growth in the month of August was slightly above our planned range for the ...
BOB ULRICH

While December sales were disappointing, with below-plan performance at all three of our divisions, ...
BOB ULRICH

What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get tha...
SKEET ULRICH

My problem with interviews, one day I'll think one thing, and the next day I'll think the ex...
SKEET ULRICH

With the increased growth occurring in the township, it stands to reason that we will need more sher...
ANN ULRICH

We've had a lot of issues with people getting into the left turn lane (eastbound) well before they s...
ANN ULRICH

If there is problem with the formula, they've got potential downside to the stock.
BENNER ULRICH

Based on our discussions with multiple consultants and industry contacts, we believe it is likely Jo...
BENNER ULRICH

Isn't that the whole integrity of this fuckin' band to do different shit? We've always tried to avoi...
LARS ULRICH

They paint fucking white lines in the middle of the road and the cops tell you you can't drive there...
LARS ULRICH

I tink if people sit down and consider the amount of dedication we put into what we do, we are at th...
LARS ULRICH

The allegation that two BND agents had Saddam Hussein's plan for defending the Iraqi capital and, on...
ULRICH WILHELM

Metallica's the only band i've ever been in. I'm not sure that when it ends in five, ten years, I'm ...
LARS ULRICH

Things are so deep and people are always trying to read shit into things that real simple. Some peop...
LARS ULRICH

One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.
LARS ULRICH

I'm just sittin here trying not to be unhappy.
LARS ULRICH

If you sit there and you know that rule #1 is just that everything you do is honest and just a natur...
LARS ULRICH

Doing things the way you see it, going by your own heart and soul, that is pure artistic integrity. ...
LARS ULRICH

"Life is like a permanent limp dick, with an occassional blow job" [When told by Phil that life is l...
LARS ULRICH

We are here to celebrate Black Sabbath tonight a decade or so late, but that's another conversation,...
LARS ULRICH

Its just us doing our thing.
LARS ULRICH

The new stuff is much more organic, more old school. It certainly doesn't feel like 'St. Anger' Part...
LARS ULRICH

As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica.
LARS ULRICH

That's what we're all about; taking advantage of people.
LARS ULRICH

I guess these things just went down in value, uh, if we can win one I guess anyone can, uh.
LARS ULRICH

We are going to hit the smaller cities on road after the release of the new album.
LARS ULRICH

Dear 'The Kids', Don't waste your precious holiday time sittin arround all this bullshit x lies, GO ...
LARS ULRICH

We formed this band when we were 18-19, we couldn't play... We were just like 'Let's get together an...
LARS ULRICH

The day Metallica's over, i'm not going to put an ad looking for another band. I'll put my drumstick...
LARS ULRICH

Right now we're stading at a massive point of rebirth.
LARS ULRICH

...Metallica mythos...distilled the essences of the comic books and horror movies and the fantastic ...
LARS ULRICH

The 'not-giving-a-fuck' meter is as far into the red-zone as ever before.
LARS ULRICH

Get the fuck out of here!
LARS ULRICH

The history of the Beast is fulfilled, and in humility it awaits a double death —the physical anni...
ULRICH HORSTMANN

Let's see, I think the first thing we gotta to do is obviously, like you guys were expecting, is we ...
LARS ULRICH

In all previously existing democracies, there have been two types of authority: one coming from the ...
ULRICH BECK

The (EU) member states agreed in March at the European summit in Brussels that this should be part o...
ULRICH WILHELM

What's the message in Metallica? There is no message, but if there was a message, it really should b...
LARS ULRICH

I was nicknamed Skeeter in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across...
SKEET ULRICH

Over the course of our career we've been fortunate enough to share the stage with a select few of th...
LARS ULRICH

The music gets better and better. It ages so well. Some bands that you sit and listen to, and it jus...
LARS ULRICH

Napster hijacked our music without asking, ... They never sought our permission. Our catalog of musi...
LARS ULRICH

The new album will come out some time in november - Knock On Wood.
LARS ULRICH

What's this all about? It's about music, it's not about anything else, it's not about having the coo...
LARS ULRICH

I don't like to be pigeonholded, and i really like that people never really know what's going on wit...
LARS ULRICH

Everytime we put a record out, we lose people that can't deal with the growth.
LARS ULRICH

The allegation that two BND agents had Saddam Hussein's plan for defending the Iraqi capital and, on...
ULRICH WILHELM

Whatever labels are being pinned on me have nothing to do with me.
SKEET ULRICH

There's been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism.
SKEET ULRICH

I'm not the most talkative guy in the world.
SKEET ULRICH

Good designers relentlessly generate lots of ideas and open-mindedly consider alternative solutions....
KARL ULRICH

There is a lot of pressure on Chinese manufacturers.
JING ULRICH

China has a long way to go. The government has yet to bring Chinese refined product prices up to int...
JING ULRICH

You have the foreign capital coming into China in the form of QFII. That's also positive for the A-s...
JING ULRICH

There's no pricing capacity for anything. Food prices are falling; manufactured prices are seeing st...
JING ULRICH

These are both welcome measures in the A-share market.
JING ULRICH

Allow (stress) to dominate your life and you get chaos. Put God first and somehow everything falls i...
MARIETTE ULRICH

When it comes to the basics of faith, our kids don't need teddy bears. They need bricks.
MARIETTE ULRICH

I think she was much closer to the character than she thought,
SKEET ULRICH

The introduction of numerous innovative products, strong performance in emerging markets as well as ...
ULRICH LEHNER

Well-behaved women seldom make history.
LAUREL THATCHER ULRICH

We wanted to duplicate the oaken doors of the entrance but had only vague descriptions of the detail...
ULRICH R. SCHOENFELD

But every stone was catalogued, measured, precisely described, and numbered. We had to understand wh...
ULRICH R. SCHOENFELD

It was like putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle with many pieces missing. At times the work was j...
ULRICH R. SCHOENFELD

Well-behaved women rarely make history
LAUREL THATCHER ULRICH

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman...
LAUREL THATCHER ULRICH

We have built him something special to enable him to do his job in style.
DR ULRICH BEZ

Some history-making is intentional; much of it is accidental. People make history when they scale a ...
LAUREL THATCHER ULRICH

That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his fini...
HANS JONAS

'The Graduate' must be the best use of songs ever in a movie; it adds a layer to the movie y...
HANS ZIMMER

Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your ...
HANS ZIMMER

If something happened where I couldn't write music anymore, it would kill me. It's not just ...
HANS ZIMMER

The infrastructure we provide is the same in a remote town in Africa or New York or an archipelago i...
HANS VESTBERG

Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
HANS SELYE

And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hie...
HANS KUNG

There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afgha...
HANS ROSLING

I have rules for everything.
HANS VESTBERG

We need to understand what innovation will be built on top of our networks.
HANS VESTBERG

For every $10 you reduce the price of the smartphone, 100 million more people will buy them.
HANS VESTBERG

My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.
HANS VESTBERG

For us to stay competitive, we're transforming our services business to be reliable and flexible...
HANS VESTBERG

In order to have the next generation of modems, you would need to pour in even more R&D spending...
HANS VESTBERG

It's always great to have a purpose of a meeting and an ending for it, but it's even more im...
HANS VESTBERG

When it comes to meetings and preparing for that, it doesn't matter if it's a meeting with t...
HANS VESTBERG

It is users that are driving the networks with innovations on top of the networks and with innovatio...
HANS VESTBERG

It is very difficult for me to speculate as to how long it will take for the LTE-TDD ecosystem to ma...
HANS VESTBERG

I believe in free trade. I don't support regulating trade prices between different regions. Our ...
HANS VESTBERG

When you start losing market share, it's really tough to gain it back; you need the product port...
HANS VESTBERG

For us, it is very important all the time that our core business is really good but that we don'...
HANS VESTBERG

We want to be number one, from the ingestion of content to the play-out to any type of channel. Ever...
HANS VESTBERG

You don't need to recall 100,000 cars because you need to fix something. That can be done with a...
HANS VESTBERG

Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
HANS VESTBERG

Men can't do much to change; we have to wear suits, although I never wear a tie, apart from in A...
HANS VESTBERG

I need to build my team around my weaknesses.
HANS VESTBERG

You're going to see this 'Internet of things' start demanding network performance and ma...
HANS VESTBERG

India is an important market for Ericsson, not only as a telecom market but also as a global hub for...
HANS VESTBERG

I believe mobile technology has a much broader role to play. It could solve some of the biggest prob...
HANS VESTBERG

I was taking a break from university so I could play handball full-time for a year.
HANS VESTBERG

Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.
HANS SELYE

Playing characters who are wonderful and beautiful is hard because you don't feel like that most...
HANS MATHESON

Put me in a costume, and I'm your man. I must have one of those faces which seems to suit period...
HANS MATHESON

That's quite a difficult thing in life, to be who you are. And when you are doing interviews, yo...
HANS MATHESON

When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They ...
HANS MATHESON

However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights D...
HANS KUNG

The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.
HANS KUNG

If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and ...
HANS KUNG

It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making c...
HANS KUNG

I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
HANS KUNG

Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.
HANS KUNG

Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better...
HANS KUNG

We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this ear...
HANS KUNG

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
HANS KUNG

The Gospel has to be the norm.
HANS KUNG

A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
HANS KUNG

Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xeno...
HANS KUNG

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, h...
HANS KUNG

After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the ...
HANS KUNG

As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.
HANS KUNG

One of my favourite exhibitions is called 'Do It,' which I co-curated with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 21 years ago.

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One of my favourite exhibitions is called 'Do It,' which I co-curated with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 21 years ago.

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