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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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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But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.
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The meaning of art in a time of suffering, a time of war, is much more intense. People are more focused.
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The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I wrote myself in, since I'm me and I'm here and I'm writing.
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I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate.
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Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
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You can't function in society if you don't involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with the understanding that you're playing a game.
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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.
