Jeff Koons Quotes
Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.
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I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
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The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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War is the continuation of politics by other means.
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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Let us learn from the lessons of September 11 and not wait for a major strike before we act. We must work together - Democrats and Republicans, Congress and the White House, government and the private sector - to make our country a safer and more prosperous place.
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I can't tell you how many times I've gone to present at the Golden Globes, come home, whipped the dress off and read to my daughter wearing gazillion-dollar earrings. That's how it goes in my house, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
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I go out, but not too much. When I'm on tour, I just write a lot of music and sleep.
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The typical output deal from a studio is 10 to 14 movies a year.
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I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.
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With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.
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You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
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I'd like to think that if I were in prison for a crime I didn't commit, someone would be trying to get me the hell out of there.
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I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.
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I love music more just in and of itself. I love harmony and rhythm.
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Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.
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Universal human characteristics are a good base for great art.
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Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.
