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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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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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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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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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
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I feel that we, as Indians, have a knack for loving a stereotypical, sobbing, sympathy-seeking personality. I feel that we need to promote quirky, cool and youthful talent. We have to stop propagating the sob-story angle of celebs, where they try to be larger-than-life. That is very outdated. It is so boring that it puts you to sleep.
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The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.
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Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare.
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I have known a lot of people to go down and out - they kill themselves with alcohol or downers. But I've never known anybody to go up and out.
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I grew up in Berkeley and my parents were hippies, obviously, since my name's 'Jorma.' I didn't watch much television growing up because they weren't into it at all.
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I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on God. They just drop down and say a few words, and then jump up and forget it and expect God to answer them. Such praying always reminds me of the small boy ringing his neighbor's door-bell, and then running away as fast as he can go.
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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.
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Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.
