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.

Jeff Koons

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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

• In a future that portends stronger and more-frequent hurricanes striking North America's Atlantic coast, ferocious winds will pummel tall, unsteady structures. Some will topple, knocking down others. Like a gap in the forest when a giant tree falls, new growth will rush in. Gradually, the asphalt jungle will give way to a real one.

  

  Alan Weisman
  • Future
  • Hurricanes

• The plunder of black communities is not a bump along the road, but it is, in fact, the road itself that you can't have in America without enslavement, without Jim Crow, terrorism, everything that came after that.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • America
  • Black
  • Road

• Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been.

  

  David McCord
  • Fall
  • Books
  • Delighted

• '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

• My work on prime gaps lead to lots of media coverage, some good, some bad, some ugly, and some merely ridiculous. For example, a reporter of our university newspaper, who admitted that he is still learning English, wrote that "Prof. Goldston solved one of the most controversial problems in the prime number theory last month with support from his Turkish partner."

  

  Daniel Goldston
  • Science
  • Support
  • Problem

• 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