Jeff Koons Quotes
I think art teaches us how to feel, what our parameters can be, what sensations can be like; it makes you more engaged with life.
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Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.
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Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.
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There are very few fundamental shifts in global infrastructure that can happen in our life times. The financial infrastructure is one of them, and the Blockchain is changing the way we think about the transfer of value.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.
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I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.
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I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.
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Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
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'The View' was so much fun. So much fun because the audience was 85-percent fans that wanted to be there celebrating 'One Life to Live' and the other 15 percent were crew members from 'One Life to Live'. It was just really, really wonderful and the clips were wonderful.
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I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.
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I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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My dad's the one who's always been there; he's my hero, you could say. Even when he was working, he'd do anything for me. He's been the biggest influence in my life.
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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
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Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
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When we were doing 'The West Wing,' the hardest thing about doing 'The West Wing' was being compared to yourself. You go out there and want every episode to be as good as your best episode. I wrote 88 episodes of 'The West Wing,' and when you do that, one of them is going to be your 88th best, so your 88th best better be pretty good.
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In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.
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I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
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We really spend a lot of time on building relationships. And so when everyone is like, 'How do you break so many stories?' it's because I build relationships. I do it the old-fashioned way, and I build sourcing relationships, and then I take advantage of those relationships over time.
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I have great respect for the Pope. I like the Pope. I actually like him.
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My husband does say it is Australia's job and my family's job to keep me grounded. They do a very good job!
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If you told Exxon or Lukoil that, in order to avoid wrecking the climate, they couldn't pump out their reserves, the value of their companies would plummet.
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Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.
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I think art teaches us how to feel, what our parameters can be, what sensations can be like; it makes you more engaged with life.
