Jeff Koons Quotes
Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.
Quotes to Explore
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I know what to do and I go and execute.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.
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I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.
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I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.
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The coolest person to yourself is yourself, and we're like nerds, and we love to be smart, and that's okay.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.
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It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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I didn't get a ton of interest from colleges in baseball and football, but I was outstanding in track and had the sense that this would be my meal ticket... Track was a sport where I saw immediate improvement, and I had a lot of good support behind me... and the coaches had a lot of experience and pushed me in that direction for sure.
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It only works because we still amuse each other. After we have been working with other people, it is so refreshing to laugh unreservedly when we are back together again.
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Even before I did stand-up, I've always been the kind of guy - and I talk about it on stage - who says I like people and I always look for the good in people. I say, 'Every person has something good about them, if you can just find it.'
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Subject matter is sort of overemphasized in the way books get discussed, I think.
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Incentive schemes, whereby people who have done the most good for humanity are rewarded 20 years into the future, would create the expectation that doing long-term good is valuable.
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Racism is a sin and has no place in the church, including the Archdiocese of Chicago.
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Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.
