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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If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer. Every moment is the most important moment of your life. No future time is better than now to let down your guard and love.
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There are two kinds of people in one's life-people whom one keeps waiting-and the people for whom one waits
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The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.
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It feels like getting a back massage from the Grim Reaper: one must get comfortable with the most horrifying things in the world.
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Because I like theatre and I love a challenge. With 'ZEBRA!' I've found a new Australian play where I can create a character first - that's what I live to do.
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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.
