Jeff Koons Quotes
I try to make pieces that are durable. One of the reasons that I work in steel is durability.
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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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People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.
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Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, 'A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards', is apt in these days of witless chancers.
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.It is man's creative power and that alone which makes himself, his stars, his history, his Karma, etc., though no doubt he has to take necessarily due account of factors and forces around him. WORK, WORK, WORK, ACTION, ACTION, ACTION, SELF-RELIANCE, SELF-RELIANCE, SELF-RELIANCE This is the stern, simple golden rule of timeless truth for any success that man makes. And there is no other rule which comes first before it.
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At times, some journalists see nothing in the people apart from an opportunity to make material gain. They see them as consumers to whom we sell commodities at huge profits that keep our bank accounts growing.
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My career has never really been a vertical kind of thing. I mean, it's always been a bit difficult for me.
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I try to make pieces that are durable. One of the reasons that I work in steel is durability.
