"The first thing that any good artist has to develop is a sense of independence from the artworld. What really destroys a young artist is insecurity, the fear that everything could be taken away at any moment."

-- Jeff Koons

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“A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce, I think I'm about $100,000 short.”
“I don't ask anyone else to live my life. I have enough trouble doing that.”
“If we're going to be successful in taking on the billionaire class, we need a strong national grassroots movement.”
“There is a voice that doesnâ€™t use words. Listen.”
“I've never seen a job being done by a five-hundred-person engineering team that couldn't be done better by fifty people.”
“The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable, and even fatal, to the life of others.”

Source : Arthur James Balfour (1895). “The Foundations of Belief: Being Notes Introductory to the Study of Theology”
“When people ask me which is your favourite portrait, they expect it to be Diana, or someone famous. But the answer is my dog, Puffy. They think I mean Puff Daddy. No, it is the dog,”

Source : "Patrick Demarchelier: I Don’t Care — Or Know — Who I Shoot" by Ellie Krupnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2012.
“I`m running for president because everyday Americans and their families need a champion, and I want to be that champion. I want to make the words middle class mean something again.”

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