Jeff Koons Quotes
Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.
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I've been fortunate to work with partners like Weinstein and John and Art Linson in developing 'Yellowstone' and am grateful that it has found a home in the Paramount Network. The show is both timely and timeless.
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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.
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The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.
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But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.
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The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.
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As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.
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When historians of early America turned from the pursuit of past politics, they devised a category known in the academy as 'social and intellectual history.' In it, they stuffed nearly everything except politics on the assumption, which the anthropologists assured them was correct, that it would all fit together. Somehow it did not.
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My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
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I'm sure in the history of Harvard, and the history of most schools, there's been some pretty crazy parties that I'm not even sure you could even capture on film how silly and ridiculous they were.
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If you live on Nantucket, you can't avoid its history, and 'Moby Dick' is the way most of us get into Nantucket's history.
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History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.
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The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
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You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.
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I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
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My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
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With my history of concussions, the WWE wants to protect me, so I've had to take a lot of neurological testing.
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For much of history it was possible to believe that the great diversity of life on Earth was a fixed creation, that the living world had never changed. But when the first stirrings of industry demanded that fuel be dug from the earth and hillsides be leveled for roads and railways, the Earth's true past was dug up in abundance.
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My problem is that people get intimidated by someone big and beautiful like me. They hate to think I can be smart as well.
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There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did.
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He was a man who looked at what ought to be done, not to the reputation which is got by a man's acts
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When the Foundations of one's life are Cracked, Expect to see Shifting of Thoughts and Emotions.
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Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.
