Ti West Quotes
There is something about boldness and fearlessness and being free enough to speak what is on one's mind that warrants freedom.
The measure of our intellectual capacity is the capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better problems.
My ultimate goal is to really be a huge music artist to the point where one day people forget that I was on a reality show.
John Coltrane was an addict; Billie Holiday was an addict; Eugene O'Neill was an addict. What would America be without addicts and post-addicts who make such grand contributions to our society?
We're all vanishing organisms and disappearing creatures in space and time - that death sentence in space in time that Kafka talked about with such profundity.
Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity-connectivity at its center. It's a form of spiritual emptiness.
I would want to conceive of philosophy as grounded in the very long humanist tradition that is the best of the West, which is open to the East and North and South.
I think hip-hop can be prophetic and progressive, and at the same time, the dominant forms tend to be homophobic, misogynistic and something that we need to critically call into question.
Martin Luther King wanted to be morally consistent and speak out against various things that were wrong, not just racism.
Courage is the enabling virtue for any philosopher - for any human being, I think, in the end. Courage to think, courage to love, courage to hope.
To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all.
I think, Tom Friedman is right, and I think that we have to - we have to have a serious public dialogue to try to shift public policy in that regard.
For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.
Since I got married my wife doesn't really let me wear anything that I used to because she says I have no taste at all.
I'm not a great fan of green screen. It's not much fun for actors. It's great for directors and technical people and cameramen.
My father builds homes. So I grew up around the idea that you can take a piece of land, and you can bulldozer it and build new homes on it. You can create something new.
Personalities seem in many cases to dominate the lucrative endorsement market. But that doesn't upset me. What upsets me is when not enough attention is paid to the product-the game.
It was clear to me that I was never going to be the same kind of player I had been. It was time to quit.
I was disappointed if I didn't have a chance to win a game, and if I had the chance and didn't do it.
I don't live in the past. And besides, there are too many times in my career to remember specific events, because I played so many games.
Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful, and who their coaches were.
The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.
We buy our way out of jail but we can't buy freedom, We buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need them, Things we buy to cover up what's inside.
It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.
Visiting my mind is like visiting the Hermes factory. Sh*t is real. You're not going to find a chink. It's 100,000 per cent Jimi Hendrix.
It's only led me to complete awesomeness at all times. It's only led me to awesome truth and awesomeness. Beauty, truth, awesomeness. That's all it is.
Every interview I'm representing you making you proud. Reach for the stars so if you fall you land on a cloud.