Ti West Quotes

I think that there is a changing wind. There are black conservatives out there, and their voices need to be heard.

Every year, thousands of Californians flee that populous paradise for tax-eased small government oasis of America's red states.

I think that Governor Romney needs to talk about the fact that what he tried to do in the state of Massachusetts was him seeing what could be best for his state, but maybe it didn't work out as well.

I will take my hands off Medicare when there is no Medicare, then I will come and see you, sir.

I consider myself to be flawed, but I made it work. I'm not perfect. Anybody who thinks they are is whacked-out.

You watch people and study them the way an alien would.

I had people that were coming on my own website and attacking me. You know, they were like Hillary Clinton supporters? It was very ugly.

It takes unbelievable spiritual courage, moral fortitude, to engage in militant nonviolence.

Martin Luther King's legacy is never to be measured by bricks and mortar, but rather by the kind of lives that we live, and the kind of love and service that we render.

confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder

The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace.

I don't know of a great artist who did not sacrifice and thereby have to wrestle with the depths of loneliness and sadness.

For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might of white male corporate elites.

The courage to be is the most difficult thing for any human being.

I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.

Im completely English, but I grew up in Paris and went to school here. My parents moved when I was five.

I am always jumping into the sausage grinder and deciding, even before I’m half ground, that I don’t want to be a sausage after all.

We're not always in the position that we want to be at. We're constantly growing, we're constantly making mistakes, we're constantly trying to express ourselves and trying to actualize our dreams.

To be a visionary, all you have to do is make decisions based off of your eyes instead of your ears and your memory.

I don't particularly like photos of myself, though.

The dinosaurs aren't remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity's gone, what do we give to this little planet that we're on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?

I don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid.

Like, this is my baby. This isn't America's baby.

Like, I want the world to be better! All I want is positive! All I want is dopeness! Why would you want to control that?

I could still do a suit, I just wouldn't have done that exact lapel situation.

The dinosaurs are remember only by their bones. What will we be remembered for with humanity?

You have to think like a designer. You have to establish the trend four seasons before it becomes popular.

[I want to build] the biggest apparel company in human history.

Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliché for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.

I'm supposed to be a musical genius, but I can't work the car seat that well.

[My favourite song is] "All Along the Watchtower." The Jimi Hendrix cover.

An artist's career doesn't happen in the cycle of one week of news. An artist's career happens in a lifetime, and if you're a true artist you're willing to die for what you believe in.

Racism is still alive they just be concealing it

I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

People let their frustrations out on me. I love Kanye West. They say the opposite of that. But I'm not going to say that. I'm only going to say what I'm want to put into the universe.

Fusion is the future. The mixing of ideas. The two lunch tables working together. Humanity...we're 1 people.

I am happy to be able to be part of this Rock'n'Blues Fest as the first tour since the amputation of my right leg. I hope this gives me a leg up on the new year!

Sometimes I don't drink so the next day I can remember having fun.

I have never been able to sleep with anyone. I require a full-size bed so that I can lie in the middle of it and extend my arms spreadeagle on both sides without being obstructed.

Just a little sheep dip. Panacea for all stomach ailments.

Ya know it was a toss-up whether I go in for diamonds or sing in the choir. The choir lost.

Money is of value for what it buys, and in love it buys time, place, intimacy, comfort, and a private corner alone.

The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood.

And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.

A good cause has to be careful of the company it keeps.

The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.

The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.

I cannot think that espionage can be recommended as a technique for building an impressive civilization. It's a lout's game.

It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross.

It seemed a good idea at the time.