Jeff Koons Quotes
I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and your interests.
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The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
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The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning.
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It's not the job of the U.S. military to do nation-building or produce democratic utopias.
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The pledge drive has everything going against it as broadcasting. It's repetitive. It's ad-libbed by people who can't ad-lib. It's about asking for money, which is something nobody wants to hear, even from their own relatives.
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
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When I first heard about Twittering, I thought it was the most disgusting thing I'd ever heard of in my life. It's like the devil: the idea that your personal life is there for everybody.
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Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.
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I don't want to do stories that don't have a heart. I'm just not going to be satisfied with stories where I can't be passionate about the subject, where I can't make a difference.
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The Sino-American competition involves two significant realities that distinguish it from the Cold War: neither party is excessively ideological in its orientation; and both parties recognize that they really need mutual accommodation.
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When I was growing up, my white friends would call me: 'Hey, Chief!' Even when I go to work now, people call me 'Chief.'
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I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.
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I do love that witches haven't really been explored that much. Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.
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Every day, some act of kindness comes my way, even if it's just someone opening the door. It happens every day if you keep an eye out for it. Keeping an eye out, that's the key.
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I don't want anybody to not recognize how appreciative I am of the volume of e-mails I get.
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I really can't hate more than 5 or 10 years. Wouldn't it be terrible to be always burdened with those primary emotions you had at one time?
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When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux.
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'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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I don't wish that I was playing football. I love baseball, and the way I play is like it's my last day ever playing it. I do like football, but you've got to respect that it's not like baseball.
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If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
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I have a small family, but they are all still in Perth, and I am still very close with my high-school friends.
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I'm superconscious of not putting chemicals on my skin, like parabens and sulfates.
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The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path.
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I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and your interests.
