Jeff Koons Quotes

It's not about finding relevance or perfection or imperfection in objects, but it's that you can accept yourself and then go out and accept others.

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• Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• The most important thing that everybody can do, aside from building and keeping your network strong, is make good choices about your health.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Good
  • Important
  • Strong

• The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

  

  Ian Hunter
  • Know
  • Ideas
  • Idea

• The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Work
  • Great
  • Writing

• The United States is supplying the most modern and sophisticated weaponry to Israel to the tune of billions of dollars every year.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Year
  • Modern
  • Israel

• Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy.

  

  Karl Rove
  • House
  • Winning
  • Stupid

• I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Power
  • Evil
  • Intentions

• I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Ignorance
  • Will
  • Expose

• In the battle between the sexes, men and women will go practically to the end of the earth in illogical, irrational ways to give each other pain.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Men
  • Women
  • Earth

• Mr. Clyde Ross at that time, like most African Americans around the country, was unable to secure a loan, due to policies around redlining and deciding, you know, who deserved the loans and who doesn’t. There was a broad, broad consensus that African Americans, for no other reason besides blanket racism, could not be responsible homeowners.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Time
  • Country
  • Racism

• The world becomes an apparently infinite, yet possibly finite, card game. Image combinations, permutations, comprise the world game.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • World
  • Game

• Now that I've met you,Would you object toNever seeing each other again?'Cause I can't afford toClimb aboard you.No one's got that much ego to spend.So don't work your stuff,Because I've got troubles enough.No, don't pick on meWhen one act of kindness could beDeathly,Deathly,Definitely.

  

  Aimee Mann
  • Work
  • Kindness
  • Ego

• I loved a lot of different kinds of music, but for my own thing, I went for the singer-songwriters.

  

  Patti Scialfa
  • Music
  • Different

• You don't want to have so much money going toward your mortgage every month that you can't enjoy life or take care of your other financial responsibilities.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • Life
  • Money
  • Financial

• I think Hitchcock had a thing about hills: think of the house on the hill in 'Psycho.' Then, in 'Vertigo,' Scottie is forever traversing the city, going downhill all the time as he goes deeper and deeper into himself. It's as if Hitchcock is using San Francisco as a psychological map.

  

  Allen Coulter
  • Time
  • House
  • City

• Certainly I have made comments on American society with the various pictures and have done about nine antiwar paintings. But I did them because I was incorporating my feelings into my work.

  

  James Rosenquist
  • Work
  • Done
  • American

• We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Time
  • Age

• Usually I'm very, very involved with choosing my character's wardrobe and knowing exactly how I want the character to look and this is the color palette and the textures and these are the kinds of shoes she'd wear.

  

  Kathleen Robertson
  • She
  • Character
  • Color

• Mothers subject their daughters to a level of scrutiny people usually reserve for themselves. A mother's gaze is like a magnifying glass held between the sun's rays and kindling. It concentrates the rays of imperfection on her daughter's yearning for approval. The result can be a conflagration - whoosh.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • People
  • Mother
  • Sun

• A conservative vision to tech issues assumes the imperfection of mankind and a preference for markets - not politics - to drive outcomes.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • Vision
  • Imperfection

• For some of the kids on my bus, the deviation is so small: an imperfection in the DNA strand so tiny that an electron microscope cranked to 100,000X magnification shows but a shadow. A knot of rogue atoms. Weightless. A body forms itself around that anomaly, and next comes a life, and the lives of that person's family.

  

  Craig Davidson
  • Kids
  • Imperfection
  • Bus

• 'All right, Marius-I get the message. In fact I intercepted it, parsed it, filtered it, decrypted it with the appropriate onetime pad and wrote a fucking two-hundred-page report on it. Satisfied?''I’m never satisfied, Mishenka. It just isn’t in my nature.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Nature

• It's not about finding relevance or perfection or imperfection in objects, but it's that you can accept yourself and then go out and accept others.

  

  Jeff Koons
  • Imperfection