Kanye West Quotes

There would have been no Beats deal without the Samsung deal. It showed the number one company the importance of connecting with culture.

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• I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.

  

  Ralph Bellamy
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Time
  • Help
  • Responsibility

• If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Happy
  • Proud
  • Care

• Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Culture
  • Know
  • Irony

• I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Women
  • Influence

• It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Experience
  • Remember
  • Nature

• Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Nothing
  • Something
  • Say

• As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Place
  • Information
  • Possible

• I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Want
  • Ideas
  • Own

• Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Wonder

• In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Nature
  • Words

• Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• There wasn't really a song or artist that made me want to be a singer, I think I was always a fan of country music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Country
  • Song

• I stay true because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character. It's the thing that connects him to me and to everybody else. So, the search is the same. It's to unveil the truth, and that's how I stay true, because my purpose isn't altered.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Character
  • Truth
  • True

• I think there is no reason for us to bring to Islamism or political Islam the fear and ignorance of Western commentators and their hysterical vocabulary.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Political
  • Fear
  • Ignorance

• There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Friends
  • Best

• I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Way
  • Feel
  • Any

• It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • New
  • New York
  • Flying

• Before we had the Internet, I organized a fax campaign against the first Iraq war. We blasted faxes to the hotel where James Baker and Tariq Aziz were having their final meeting before the two sides went to war. Much more recently, I co-founded Avaaz and Get Up, which inspired the creation of Purpose.

  

  Jeremy Heimans
  • Up
  • War
  • Purpose

• If your life turns out to be good and you have a tremendous amount of luck in your life, it's a good thing to turn around and make it work for others.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Life
  • Work
  • Luck

• Once you do have a child, you want to talk about every detail of it. And it is really boring to all your friends, and it should be. I was really worried about even going there at all.

  

  Matt Berninger The National
  • Friends

• I write songs based on things I see in the culture around me.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Culture

• If pressed, I would say I feel British. It's where I grew up and where I choose to live, the culture that I love, but I feel perfectly at home in America, I don't feel like a tourist or anything.

  

  Rebecca Hall
  • Culture
  • British
  • Tourist

• There would have been no Beats deal without the Samsung deal. It showed the number one company the importance of connecting with culture.

  

  Kanye West
  • Culture
  • Numbers
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