Kathleen Hanna Quotes

People can be in a prison of their own mind. [There are] people who don't have their hearts open to other people's ideas, and can't listen to other people's ideas without feeling like they're being slapped in the face. Those people are more in a prison.

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• I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.

  

  RaeLynn
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • God
  • Heart
  • Redemption

• I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
  • Pain
  • Myself

• I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Believe
  • Bad

• I want to know what people thought and what they wore and what they ate for breakfast.

  

  Sally Watson
  • People
  • Thought
  • Breakfast

• It is not the soul alone that should be healthy; if the mind is healthy in a healthy body, all will be healthy and much better prepared to give God greater service.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • God
  • Mind
  • Soul

• Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • People
  • Together
  • Capitalism

• I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.

  

  Rami Malek
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • People
  • Science
  • Interesting

• Best advice that I ever got is to do whatever it takes to make myself happy, so that I'll be able to make others happy. If I'm not happy, I can't make other people happy.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • People
  • Happy
  • Myself

• Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

  

  Larry McMurtry
  • People
  • Trouble
  • Other

• People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon can almost sound like a foreign language.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • People
  • Work
  • Language

• We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough to know what acceptance feels like. We bond together based on anything that we can - music preference, race, gender, the block that we grew up on.

  

  iO Tillett Wright
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• If you're having fun being yourself and filming something that you would watch yourself, it becomes contagious for other people to watch, too.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • People
  • Fun
  • Yourself

• One of my top tips for aspiring entrepreneurs: Tell everyone you know about your idea. This runs contrary to the instinct that most people have, because they're afraid someone is going to 'steal my ideal.' Ideas alone are worth very little; it's in the execution and market feedback that companies are made.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Alone
  • Ideas

• I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Mind
  • Speak
  • Lose

• No one knows quite the reason, but surgically severing the corpus callosum can reduce the rate and intensity of seizures. So in the early 1960s, a few patients with severe epilepsy had their corpus callosums cut, turning them into split-brain people.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Reason
  • Brain

• I didn't get nervous when I ran, but I get nervous watching other people now. I root for anybody with a USA on their chest.

  Gail Devers
  • People
  • Now
  • Nervous

• I think Hillary and Bill are really liberals at heart. I think that, in addition to being liberals, they are very practical. They have made some decisions about what it takes to win.

  

  Maxine Waters
  • Heart

• Not to rag on myself, but when people say, 'What does it feel like to be an icon?' I'm like, 'My dog does not think I'm an icon, my cat does not think I am an icon, my cousin does not think I am an icon.' I have a really lovely group of friends, and I just don't think about it.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • People
  • Friends
  • Dog

• Most politicians - those people who live, eat and breathe politics - like to sit around and talk about politics and tell political war stories. Reagan didn't do that. His war stories were movie war stories and Hollywood war stories. He loved that.

  

  Lyn Nofziger
  • People
  • Live
  • War

• The DNA of a true Hindu is liberal. We are, by essence, liberal.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • True
  • Liberal
  • DNA

• When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Up
  • Better
  • Victories

• People can be in a prison of their own mind. [There are] people who don't have their hearts open to other people's ideas, and can't listen to other people's ideas without feeling like they're being slapped in the face. Those people are more in a prison.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • People
  • Mind
  • Heart