Hanna Alkaf Quotes

No way," I tell her. "Once was enough for me." And I mean it, though it has nothing to do with Paul and his blue eyes, and everything to do with how very, very tired I am with this hidden battle for my own thoughts, the burden of counting, the work it takes to hide it. The Djinn hates it when I'm adrift in the world, trying to live my life; he prefers me anchored to my home, where I can feed his need for numbers without fear of discovery. ~ Hanna Alkaf

The thing about a song is that, if you break it down, it's all chaos," I say. "Like, there's all these different notes, different instruments, different sounds. It's a mess. But you add a beat and a rhythm and somehow everything can come together and make something beautiful. I think that's what I'm trying to do. Find a rhythm for the mess in my head, so that it somehow... makes sense. ~ Hanna Alkaf

When there is so much broken about the world we currently live in, one cracked person is easy enough to excuse or ignore. ~ Hanna Alkaf

Adults rarely like being told that they don't have all the answers, or worse still, that the answers they do have are all the wrong ones. ~ Hanna Alkaf

I think the [fan] access is complicated, because it brings wonderful things into my life, and it brings really negative things into my life. I just try to keep the negative stuff at arm's length. Laugh at it and walk away. ~ Kathleen Hanna

Think of me lying
Next to you
In your bed
Think of me when you drink
Your warm coffee
Think of me
When you read kind
Romantic words
Think of me in every love scene
You watch in a movie
Think of me when you cry
And think of me
When you write ~ Hanna Abi Akl

I really like to talk about my work in a way that is complicated. ~ Kathleen Hanna

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

Women are choosing to stay single rather than marry men who can't step up and provide. ~ Hanna Rosin

The 1980's witnessed a new dance genre in New York City and Los Angeles. Slam Dancing was perhaps a way for adolescent males to deal with the stressors of maturation, aggressive personal feelings, and violence in the society at large. Through dancing, the youths expressed raw power and rage while achieving euphoria, enhanced self-concept, and a healthy fatigue. ~ Judith Lynne Hanna

I have late-stage Lyme disease. I was misdiagnosed for many, many years and told I had lupus, MS, Crohn's disease, even degenerative arthritis. And finally in 2010, I got the correct diagnosis, because on the last Le Tigre tour, I was having several seizures a day and at times not being able to brush my own teeth. ~ Kathleen Hanna

Without Mona, Hanna felt like a great outfit without matching accessories, a screw-driver that was all orange juice and no vodka, and an iPod without headphones. She just felt wrong. ~ Sara Shepard

It was then Raiden Ulysses Miller scorched me a second time, but I didn't battle this blaze. There was no pain. But that didn't mean I didn't end up branded. ~ Kristen Ashley

I like art with a sense of humor. I don't have a huge art education to understand everything. I don't think that means that art has to be watered down to the lowest common denominator, though. I don't think you have to go to college to be able appreciate great art, but I like art that doesn't take itself too seriously. ~ Kathleen Hanna

I had a very famous trainer tell me once, 'You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever.' They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says. ~ Jack Hanna

I'm living in a world where there are LGBTQ straight alliances at high schools. I feel pretty psyched on that. ~ Kathleen Hanna

I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers. ~ Kathleen Hanna

I find pieces of her
In songs, book quotes,
Even in the dismal corners
Of macabre streets
Hosting nobody except
Failed men and women ~ Hanna Abi Akl

If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe. ~ Hanna Rosin

Younger feminists actually care about stuff that came before them, the same way that I totally cared about and loved and felt so lucky to have access to the feminism that came before me. To have younger people take what me and my friends have done, and to say 'We have access to that, but we're going to put that through our own Internet generation filter and we're going to make it into something that speaks to us and is a lot smarter.' ~ Kathleen Hanna

You have been in politics long enough to know that no man in public office owes the public anything. ~ Mark Hanna

And hope was an oath I swore never to take. ~ Hanna Abi Akl

Really, there was only one sensible thing to do. Stay the course. Pray it through, day by day, minute by minute. The Lord had an answer and it would surely come. (p. 203) ~ Janice Hanna

I'm a very binary person in a bad way where it's like everything is either totally great or totally awful. ~ Kathleen Hanna

Women didn't want to be on the stage with other women because they didn't want their bodies to be compared. They didn't want another female act opening for them because of this weird competitive and tokenistic attitude. ~ Kathleen Hanna

I was in love
With every part of her
The parts
I knew
And the parts
I didn't ~ Hanna Abi Akl

People are actually having conversations about "Is this sexist?" ~ Kathleen Hanna

I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera. ~ Seth MacFarlane

I think that it's so powerful for me to go see someone like Bridget Everett at Joe's Pub and watch her weave her songs in and out of these funny, tragic stories - you can talk and sing and it's not this horrible offense, you're going to get thrown in artistic jail. ~ Kathleen Hanna

Just coming to terms with the fact that I got to play April Wheeler [Revolutionary Road] and Hanna Schmitz [The Reader] in one year, let alone in my lifetime. I'm very, very aware of how rare that is as an opportunity for any one person. I can't tell you how much I've been able to take away from these experiences creatively. I really, really learned so much about acting, about myself ... all of those things. It's difficult to talk about the actor's process without sounding like an arrogant asshole but they really were very challenging. ~ Kate Winslet

Since I loved underground music, I tried to carve a space for feminism within it. Those were my hopes. ~ Kathleen Hanna

Transsexualism is far less common than homosexuality, and the research is in its infancy. Scattered studies have looked at brain activity, finger size, familial recurrence, and birth order. ~ Hanna Rosin

Sexism and racism and homophobia and classism are so naturalized. All these stereotypes make people think it's just normal that straight white men are getting all the breaks. ~ Kathleen Hanna

I'm in a really lucky position where people will be interested in whatever I do, but what I do is sing. ~ Kathleen Hanna

Illiteracy is dependence. By finding the courage to learn to read and write, Hanna had advanced from dependence to independence, a step towards liberation. ~ Bernhard Schlink

What usually happens with me [is that] I start with one idea in mind and then something else happens. ~ Kathleen Hanna

The last bit
Of sanity
Has been spared and saved
By the human race ~ Hanna Abi Akl

I'm not going to sit around and be peace and love with somebody's boot on my neck. ~ Kathleen Hanna

A lot of cats are not that social. ~ Jack Hanna

He hadn't thought of Hanna that way before and for whatever reason,he found it comforting to see her in such a light - a bit of a villain in the good. ~ Melinda Michaels

The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses. ~ Hanna Rion

We cannot sense without acting and we cannot act without sensing. ~ Thomas Hanna

I wanted to make something that I wanted to hear that I wasn't hearing. ~ Kathleen Hanna