Jocko Willink Quotes
We record when I have a hole in the schedule. Sometimes night, sometimes afternoon, sometimes morning - we fit it in when we can. I prep for episodes all the time.
Quotes to Explore
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.
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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if folk music means music for the people, and playing music to entertain them and share different messages, then sure, I'd like to think that I'm part folk singer.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.
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I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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Honestly, I wasn't familiar with the whole DC comics world and the Batman world before I was part of 'Gotham.'
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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I'm not good at accepting help.
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I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
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I've loved musicals ever since I saw 'The Lion King' on Broadway.
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If you play with fire, you're gonna get burned.
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I have a very hard time picturing myself in a room with some type of goo oozing out of an air vent and killing me; that doesn't really scare me because I don't think that's going to happen to me.
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Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.
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We record when I have a hole in the schedule. Sometimes night, sometimes afternoon, sometimes morning - we fit it in when we can. I prep for episodes all the time.
