Jeff Koons Quotes
Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class. The upper class wants people to have ambition and gumption because, if you do, you will participate and you'll move through society into a different class structure.
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.
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All it takes is one drink to mess with the way you drive - it clouds your judgment and slows your reflexes. Don't take any chances. It just isn't worth it.
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I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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Some films shouldn't be remade.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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I am strictly against remaking a movie.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.
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I love working with women.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
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The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself.
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I think all the poets and artists have always written for peace and love, and it hasn’t changed much in the last two or three thousand years. But we hope.
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I gotta pound the keys for the ideas to flow.
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For me, personally, I didn't see many people like me on TV growing up.
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Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class. The upper class wants people to have ambition and gumption because, if you do, you will participate and you'll move through society into a different class structure.
