Jeff Koons Quotes
I went to art school... but I worked at the Museum of Modern Art. I worked in fundraising at the information membership desk. I ended up, over a period of time, doubling the amount of membership revenue that came in through people entering the museum, so people would ask me to come and work for them.
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There's a perception out there that the U.K. has become unfriendly to immigrants. Even if that isn't true, the very fact that that is the perception will make people not even want to come.
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.
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Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
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The partner that you have is supposed to make you a better person, and when you're happy, you're a better person.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.
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If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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The polls and the pundits and the media seem to talk to each other. It's sort of like an echo chamber.
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I remember, as a kid, I'd follow the rooster and the chickens and watch what type of grass they'd eat. And me and my friends would eat that grass, like that was our lunch.
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.
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Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
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I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.
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Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a medium height.
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They should all have their own speech patterns with their own tics and little foibles. It's fun working all that out ahead of time.
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I don't write to give joy to readers but to give them a conscience.
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Life is too full of death for death to be able to add anything to it.
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I went to art school... but I worked at the Museum of Modern Art. I worked in fundraising at the information membership desk. I ended up, over a period of time, doubling the amount of membership revenue that came in through people entering the museum, so people would ask me to come and work for them.
