Ti West Quotes

George W. Bush doesn't care about black people.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf.

I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions.

Philosophy is in fact a quest for wisdom based in sophia; that quest for wisdom has everything to do with a love of wisdom.

Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

A rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it.

To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.

Because A Walk To Remember had come out and it had made money and I got a lot of congratulations at that time as it happens out there.

All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

Give me open hands and open doors.

I've been things and seen places.

You can do what you want, but saving love doesn't bring any interest.

It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people's experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by one's own.

Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.

Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.

When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.

Idiocy is the female defect ... It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy.

Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will.

No one man should have all that power.

I am so credible and so influential and so relevant that I will change things.

Nike told me, 'We can't give you royalties because you're not a professional athlete.' I told them 'I'll go to the Garden and play one-on-no-one.' I'm a performance athlete!

Don't Ever fix your lips like collagen And say something when you gon' end up apologing

Taking 1,000 meetings attempting to get backing to do clothing.

I was wearing like, a Juicy Couture men's polo shirt. We weren't there, like, ready for war.

People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! We love Versace. Versace is the greatest designer of all time!

Of course we have compassion. We just don't believe the safety net should be used as a hammock.

He is every other inch a gentleman.

We are in a new Civil War, and just like the last, it is a struggle for the sanctity of the Union - and it's hardly civil.

I will spark a generation of thinkers who will question traditional thought until they find the absolute truth.

Wait 'till I get my money right.

And always remember, Abraham Lincoln only served one term in Congress, too.

I will be the leader of a company that ends up being worth billions of dollars, because I got the answers.

I find it hilarious when Obama's hand gets caught in the cookie jar

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

Basketball came to me and for some reason it gave me an opportunity to live a life that I didn't dream possible. But it did let me live my dreams.

There are many players who don't measure up to their marketability.

Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.

We've been talking about this for a good while, the immorality of drones, dropping bombs on innocent people. It's been over 200 children so far. These are war crimes.

I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.

It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love.

In Christ, man who made himself God encounters God who made himself man. Unrivaled self-importance and pride encounters unrivaled self-emptying and humility.

Sexy, to me, doesn't have anything to do with beautiful.

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one.

He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.