"I understand culture. I am the nucleus...." - Quote by Kanye West
I understand culture. I am the nucleus.
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“Okay, everyone please be completely quiet, because I can literally hear a whisper, and it’ll throw off my stream of consciousness, and when I get my stream of consciousness going that’s when I give the best, illest quotes. Literally, a whisper can throw it off.”
“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.”
“People don't stand up and protect their dreams because they get spoofed in a way.”
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“Who did she know in Raleigh who took the time off to fix a house? Or read Whitman or Eliot, finding images in the mind, thoughts of the spirit? Or hunted dawn from the bow of a canoe? These weren't the things that drove society, but she felt they shouldn't be treated as unimportant. They made living worthwhile.”
“No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.”
“Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners and customs. He who sees Paris, seems to see all history through with the sky and constellations in the intervals.”
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“We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to activity, and we forget very fast what he says.”
“I believe that we have better ideas. But I also believe that good ideas don't matter if people don't hear them.”
“I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.”