Jeff Koons Quotes
I try to make pieces that are durable. One of the reasons that I work in steel is durability.
Quotes to Explore
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The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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You can say whatever you want about me, I'm not really bothered. But when it starts to upset people I care about or I hear about it from my mum, then that's a problem.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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I didn't have a sweet tooth, but I liked butter, and I liked sauces, and I liked wine... and curry... and cheeses.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.
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There's plenty of people who've never gotten the opportunity to wrestle at WrestleMania. To perform there and do that, I never thought it would ever happen. I had learned to live with it. So to say I did, that is a big notch in my belt.
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The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.
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There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, 'Ooh, hey, I can do that.' There's only a few people that have flown in early 1908. In four years, 39 countries had hundreds of airplanes, thousands of pilots.
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Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.
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Transparency is so important in business.
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I'm a physical guy. I play basketball, and I rock climb.
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We are very committed to putting forward a really bold message for the state of Colorado.
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I try to make pieces that are durable. One of the reasons that I work in steel is durability.
