Jeff Koons Quotes
I am very conscious of the viewer because that's where the art takes place. My work really strives to put the viewer in a certain kind of emotional state.
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
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The emotions of the game do not change.
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It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
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You learn as much as you can from the people that you work with. That's why you want to surround yourself with the heaviest people that you can possibly get to.
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I think the defining moment in my career is the day that I moved to Nashville - September 1, 2001. That's the biggest step to getting here is making that move. Anything that happens, the wonderful opportunities that happen to you, can't happen until you make that move.
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This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.
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It's harder in the States. I'm much more inclined to get offered things that are a lot straighter and heavier and dramatic. And they go by looks, too. If you look like a leading man, then that's what they will consider you for.
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I've been managing Internet businesses since 1999. That's 12 years of being in the tornado, and it's pretty exhausting. I'll be looking at the next challenge, but in terms of operating an Internet business, I've scratched that itch very well.
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I am very conscious of the viewer because that's where the art takes place. My work really strives to put the viewer in a certain kind of emotional state.
