Top 100 Ulrich Quotes
#1. The next time I met Ulrich, he asked me: "Do you know what sookin sin is?" I
Whittaker Chambers
#2. Our saints have always been theives and murderers. That's the proof of the loftiness of their hearts. (spoken by Ulrich's neighbor)
Rana Dasgupta
#3. I used to be a session musician before I was a wrestler. I played bass guitar. I was big pals with Lars Ulrich and he asked me if I wanted to play bass with Metallica in their early days but it didn't work out.
Hulk Hogan
#4. Ulrich the Axe, famed for his bloody deeds among Christians and pagans alike.
H.P. Lovecraft
#5. The most convincing and enduring foe of the global financial economy ultimately is the global financial economy itself. - Ulrich Beck
Richard Swift
#6. Gifford Ulrich didn't know the distance from despair to hope, but he knew hope didn't sleep in alleys.
Dan Groat
#7. They said, Now we are capitalists! but all Ulrich could see was criminality to a principle.
Rana Dasgupta
#8. Ulrich Van Holtz continued to read the latest tome on world economics, pretending to be bored, but in truth absolutely fascinated!
Shelly Laurenston
#9. Lars [Ulrich] of Metallica is one of the worst drummers I've ever heard, but they hide it because they spend millions recording.
Slim Moon
#11. I think when someone becomes an actor, people say, Aw, you could see it in him when he was little. But I think you can see that quality in every little kid.
Skeet Ulrich
#12. In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.
Hans Ulrich Obrist
#13. Improving the skills of HR colleagues. The best learners are also teachers. Investing in building the skills of HR colleagues requires individuals to be clear and disciplined about a topical area, tool, or technology.
David Ulrich
#14. What we miss is how unsustainable that is. Even bigger is the idea that we as a nation are not made up of businesses, banks, malls, markets, homes or things. Our greatest asset is ourselves: our lives and our people. The real investment should be there.
Brian Ulrich
#15. Movies don't create psychos. Movies make psychos more creative.
Skeet Ulrich
#16. 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
#17. My job is art curator, not artist. All I have ever wanted to do is immerse myself in art, to enjoy it, to learn about it, to write about it, to talk to others about it.
Hans Ulrich Obrist
#18. I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature.
Hans Ulrich Obrist
#19. This isn't about fans, greed or money. It's about being morally right or wrong. Nobody is governing the way music gets from artists to fans. It's all running amok.
Lars Ulrich
#20. I wouldn't say that we're proactively out there hunting down brands to try to fulfill some piece of a larger battle plan or something. If they have things they want to get to us, we're somewhat easily accessible through our managers and record companies.
Lars Ulrich
#21. We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
Ulrich Beck
#22. The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.
Ulrich Beck
#23. Making art is not the matter of a moment, and nor is making an exhibition; curating follows art.
Hans Ulrich Obrist
#24. I started going to exhibitions in Switzerland when I was 10 or 11. As a schoolboy, I would go every afternoon to see the long, thin figures of Giacometti.
Hans Ulrich Obrist
#25. From 1991 to 2000, I was totally nomadic. I was travelling 300 days a year and building out my research. These were a bit like my learning and migrating years, so to say.
Hans Ulrich Obrist
#26. I don't use the techniques I learned at NYU much anymore.
Skeet Ulrich
#27. Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.
Skeet Ulrich
#28. I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books. I fell in love.
Hans Ulrich Obrist
#29. I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk.
Ulrich Beck
#30. To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
#31. In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.
Ulrich Beck
#32. To record is a process against forgetting. I do interviews because it's what I've been doing every day for a few hours since I was a kid. I've always talked to artists.
Hans Ulrich Obrist
#33. When I was a kid and started to be obsessed by art in the 1980s, the art world was in this polarity Warhol/Beuys, Beuys/Warhol. Both expended the notion of art extremely, but in very different ways.
Hans Ulrich Obrist
#34. Metallica's the only band I've ever been in and it's the only band I ever wanna be in.
Lars Ulrich
#35. This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be unable to rule out such a possibility in the future. Precisely this is the background to the United States' military interventions.
Ulrich Beck
#36. Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized.
Ulrich Beck
#37. During my time at high school and university in Kreuzlingen and St. Gallen, I traveled around Europe looking at art, visiting artists, studios, galleries and museums.
Hans Ulrich Obrist
#38. I would take William H. Macy as a teacher any day of the week. He's incredible. He's got a lot of hard-earned experience.
Skeet Ulrich
#39. A person moving in zero gravity feels a pitiful helplessness. One wrong move and you find yourself spinning wildly. Everyone becomes a baby again in outer space, laboriously learning how to walk.
Ulrich Walter
#40. All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
Ulrich Beck
#41. Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.
Ulrich Beck
#43. The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.
Lars Ulrich
#44. There's a lot of reasons you can think of to say why you act, but I can only say that it just felt good. At the same time, it felt really painful. It's still troubling and stressful to me.
Skeet Ulrich
#46. Electronic communication makes possible what has previously been excluded: namely, active, simultaneous and reciprocal contact between individuals across all frontiers constituted by countries, religions and continents.
Ulrich Beck
#47. Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.
Ulrich Beck
#48. It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.
Hans Ulrich Obrist
#50. To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.
Hans Ulrich Obrist
#51. I had gone to school to study marine biology.
Skeet Ulrich
#52. I'm just sittin here trying not to be unhappy.
Lars Ulrich
#53. As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.
Skeet Ulrich
#54. What's the message in Metallica? There is no message, but if there was a message, it really should be look within yourself, don't listen to me, don't listen to James, don't listen to anybody, look within yourself for the answers.
Lars Ulrich
#55. At a certain time, an artist needs a big retrospective. At other times, they need a more focused exhibition. It's a different story each time; it's about establishing a dialogue.
Hans Ulrich Obrist
#56. Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis.
Hans Ulrich Obrist
#57. I don't like to be pigeonholed, and I really like that people never really know what's going on with Metllica.
Lars Ulrich
#58. I think the art fair is very much a form of urbanism. I think something really happens to the cities when such a fair happens. The city becomes an exhibition; it's amazing.
Hans Ulrich Obrist
#61. I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.
Hans Ulrich Obrist
#62. You could say that we are living in an internally globalized country.
Ulrich Beck
#63. My problem with interviews, one day I'll think one thing, and the next day I'll think the exact opposite.
Skeet Ulrich
#64. Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
Ulrich Beck
#65. Mr. Koons's work has always inspired architects, which I think is very interesting. I think he is an artist who has reinvented himself so many times and reinvented so many different series.
Hans Ulrich Obrist
#66. I was nicknamed Skeeter in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield.
Skeet Ulrich
#67. At least believe this many humans, who are interested obviously in this topic. Many of them visited me after lectures and meetings, in hope that I can give concrete answers to their questions. For it was clear: If that does not know it, who is to then know it?
Ulrich Walter
#68. This is treachery, to change faith in accord with shifting fortune. The justice of my cause impelled me to withstand even adverse circumstance.
Ulrich Von Hutten
#69. I really like LIMP BIZKIT. I mean, I've said it for years - I don't know if anyone actually hears it - but I think LIMP BIZKIT are an awesome band. In terms of the rap-rock bands, or ANY bands out there, I think they really are truly among the best.
Lars Ulrich
#70. I guess I'm a little charmed. I never thought this would happen so quick.
Skeet Ulrich
#71. Fly-in, fly-out curating nearly always produces superficial results; it's a practice that goes hand in hand with the fashion for applying the word 'curating' to everything that involves simply making a choice - radio playlists, hotel decor, even the food stalls in New York's High Line Park.
Hans Ulrich Obrist
#72. I'm not the most talkative guy in the world.
Skeet Ulrich
#73. But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to be taken increasingly seriously and came to entail waging a real war.
Ulrich Beck
#74. Switzerland felt incredibly narrow, growing up. It was good, in a way. There were so many museums. But it was always a no-brainer that I would have to leave, and I'm grateful for that.
Hans Ulrich Obrist
#76. The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at.
Skeet Ulrich
#77. Of course, change requires change. Until there is a felt need for change, it is only an event not a pattern.
Dave Ulrich
#79. The more you understand me, the less characters I can play.
Skeet Ulrich
#80. Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I would not put me back into a shuttle - and no other astronaut. The confidence is shaken.
Ulrich Walter
#83. I always say the only limitations are in your mind, and if you don't buy into those limits, you can do a helluva lot more than you imagine.
Marshall Ulrich
#84. intelligence organizes the world by organizing itself" (CR, pp.
Ulrich Muller
#85. Everybody else has been seen, been proven.
Skeet Ulrich
#86. An androgynous mind was not a male mind. It was a mind attuned to the full range of human experience, including the invisible lives of women.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
#87. You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
Ulrich Beck
#88. And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.
Ulrich Beck
#89. I have many intense friendships with artists. I don't mean we have intense one-day conversations but ongoing conversations that last in some cases for years.
Hans Ulrich Obrist
#90. I feel like I want to crawl out of my skin, especially when people start questioning me.
Skeet Ulrich
#91. One of my favourite exhibitions is called 'Do It,' which I co-curated with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 21 years ago.
Hans Ulrich Obrist
#92. Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.
Hans Ulrich Obrist
#93. Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government.
Ulrich Beck
#94. At a certain moment, when I started doing my own shows, I felt it would be really interesting to know what is the history of my profession. I realized that there was no book, which was kind of a shock.
Hans Ulrich Obrist
#95. If I seem to you to change my state and alter my condition, I do not change my mind. I try always to be Hutten, never to desert myself, but to walk with equanimity through the unequal scenes of life.
Ulrich Von Hutten
#96. If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.
Lars Ulrich
#97. The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.
Ulrich Beck
#98. I think I'm extremely vulnerable and that in some ways I seek out rejection. Never feeling like you're getting that pat on the back from dad is probably at the heart of that.
Skeet Ulrich
#99. Whatever labels are being pinned on me have nothing to do with me.
Skeet Ulrich
#100. One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.
Lars Ulrich
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