Jimi Manuwa Quotes

I got kicked out of all Gwinnett schools 'cause I got in a fight, and I had to go to military school.

I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.

I was the girl in the black leather jacket with the black fingernails, picked up after school by guys with loud cars and motorcycles. I carried straight-A grades, but I had a little trouble with rules. I tended to have a bit of an authority problem.

You can shut the fuck up, or you can fire me

In junior high in Germany I fought kids all the time. I had such a bad temper, I almost got thrown out of school. A few lickings from my dad got me out of that scene. He wore me out with a paddle.

Men and people will fight you down when you see the light. Let me tell you if you are not wrong than everything is all right.

Whenever I don’t know whether to fight or not, I fight.

I always wanted to be a juvenile delinquent but my parents wouldn't let me.

There are some people who don't conform to the signals. An ordinary well-regulated locomotive slows down or pulls up when it sees the red light hoisted against it. Perhaps I was born color blind. When I see the red signal -- I can't help forging ahead. And in the end, you know, that spells disaster.

I'm not starting any fights. I might finish one though.

When a guy has his ego hurt, he's liable to jump into a fight he doesn't need to have.

Stop it," spluttered Eustace, "go away. Put that thing away. It's not safe. Stop it, I say. I'll tell Caspian. I'll have you muzzled and tied up." "Why do you not draw your own sword, poltroon!" cheeped the Mouse. "Draw and fight or I'll beat you black and blue with the flat." "I haven't got one," said Eustace. "I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in fighting." "Do I understand," said Reepicheep, withdrawing his sword for a moment and speaking very sternly, "that you do not intend to give me satisfaction?

Though the man-apes often fought and wrestled one another, their disputes very seldom resulted in serious injuries. Having no claws or fighting canine teeth, and being well protected by hair, they could not inflict much harm on one another. In any event, they had little surplus energy for such unproductive behavior; snarling and threatening was a much more efficient way of asserting their points of view.

In a fight almost anything goes. It almost reaches the point where you stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above the belt.

I have too much potential for collapse. There's an anonymity that makes people feel safe to participate in hatefulness. I like a good old-fashioned fistfight if people are pissed off at each other. I just feel like if you're really mad and want to have a fight, then put your dukes up.

Not playing by the rules, not seeing things conventionally, that's the heart of who he [ Steve Jobs] is, and he does it in small ways of everyday rebellion just almost to assert who he is, like not putting a license plate on his car.

Aggression means emotions. Emotions means you’re gonna get off your plan and that means you’ll lose the fight.

Fools follow rules when the set commands ya...

Violence stinks no matter which side of it you're on. But now and then there's nothing left to do but hit the other person over the head with a frying pan.

I follow the rules until I go against them all.

How do you fight someone if you can't hit them?

Be childish. Be irresponsible. Be disrespectful. Be everything this society hates.

In my experience of fights and fighting, it is invariably the aggressor who keeps getting everything wrong.

You do know I am my father’s son, right? People don’t talk to me that way and live. (Syn) Oh, like I fear you. Never. Besides, a fight might dislodge whatever has crawled up your sphincter and bring back the much nicer version of you. (Shahara)

I couldn't really be a part of high school, because I have a terrible time doing things that I don't want to do. I'm not good at it. It's not even like, I'm a rebel. I'm just bad at it, you know?