Jeff Koons Quotes

I'm always working. If I'm not in my studio I become quite nervous.

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• My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.

  

  Ice T
  • Live
  • Mother
  • Father

• You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Player
  • End
  • Doing

• The most profound change that genetics brings about might not be scientific at all. It might be mental and even spiritual enrichment: a more expansive sense of who we humans are, existentially, and where we came from, and how we fit with other life on earth.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Change

• No branch of the law is of more importance to the counsellor, the statesman, or the citizen, than a thorough acquaintance with the Constitution and laws of the Federal Government, as they are administered and as they affect the rights of the people.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • People
  • Law
  • Government

• Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

  

  Irvin S. Cobb
  • Humor
  • Head
  • Tragedy

• I don't want to set the world up for surprises.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Up
  • World
  • Want

• Emotionally, shows like 'Cheers' and 'Taxi' were classic sitcoms when I was growing up.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Help
  • Think
  • Key

• If any among you covet riches, let him endeavour to overcome, for the victorious not only preserve their own possessions but acquire those of the enemy.

  

  Xenophon
  • You
  • Enemy
  • Overcome

• An actor can change himself to fit a part, whereas a personality has to change the part to fit himself. The personality has to say it his own way.

  

  Dale Robertson
  • Change
  • Personality
  • Actor

• My parents had normal jobs, and I didn't just want to work all day, and so I thought if I could break into music I wouldn't have to work all day. And I had an uncle who was on Broadway, so I was like, 'I have to be able to sing.'

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Work
  • Music
  • Parents

• Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Great
  • Calling
  • Pursued

• I never go wild with nails.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Never
  • WIld
  • Nails

• Grandma and Mama showed me that you always have to give as much as you can, no matter what.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Me
  • Always
  • Matter

• The friends we have, these are choices that - unlike family, which we have no choice in, and I love my family, thank God - we've given ourselves, to some degree.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • God
  • Family
  • Love

• I did 'Nobody Walks' right after 'Dredd.' Well, actually, I got off the plane from Capetown where we shot 'Dredd' and tested for 'Being Flynn' that same day. Then I came out to L.A. to make this film right after that so it was all very back to back.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Day
  • Same
  • Nobody

• I've had a lot of different lives. I was adopted, I grew up in Nebraska, and then I went to Northwestern... Then I had this really extraordinary, different life than my parents.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • Life
  • Up
  • Different

• Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Women
  • Power
  • Unity

• Through thicke and thin, both over banke and bush In hope her to attaine by hooke or crooke.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Hope

• When I was growing up, Sunday lunch was my favorite time as a child. We would have a big Sunday English meal, and we would argue about things.

  

  Joanna Coles
  • Up
  • Time
  • Growing

• I think there's a fear once things start to blow up - as the people say - that if you stop for a second, it will all go away.

  

  Billy Eichner
  • People
  • Up
  • Fear

• The most important job in life is being a mom.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • Life
  • Job
  • Mom

• I'm always working. If I'm not in my studio I become quite nervous.

  

  Jeff Koons