Quotes and Sayings About Badass
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Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
-- Adolf Loos -
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
-- Albert Camus -
Only one thing counts in this life - get them to sign on the line that is dotted.
-- Alec Baldwin -
Women hate each other in science. You know why? Because the few that are around were trained by men. They survived by being twice as good and twice as competitive and twice as badass as the guys.
-- Allegra Goodman -
Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.
-- Amy Poehler -
I never underestimated myself. And I never saw anything wrong with ambition.
-- Angela Merkel -
You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.
-- Anne Lamott -
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
-- Arthur Erickson -
Quantum phenomena do not occur in a Hilbert space. They occur in a laboratory.
-- Asher Peres -
If you're feeling helpless, help someone.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
-- Ayn Rand -
We work on macro issues and macaroni and cheese issues. When women are in the halls of power, our national debate reflects the needs and dreams of American families.
-- Barbara Mikulski -
This is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don't fight the little fight... Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don't whine, and don't be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight.
-- Barbara Walters -
Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
-- Barbra Streisand -
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
-- Bertrand Russell -
We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.
-- Bill Bryson -
Pressure is a privilege ... it's what you do with it that matters.
-- Billie Jean King -
Honor to those who in the life they lead define and guard a Thermopylae. Never betraying what is right, consistent and just in all they do but showing pity also, and compassion; generous when they are rich, and when they are poor, still generous in small ways, still helping as much as they can; always speaking the truth, yet without hating those who lie. And even more honor is due to them when they foresee (as many do foresee) that in the end Ephialtis will make his appearance, that the Medes will break through after all.
-- C.P. Cavafy -
Healthy moms mean healthy families. When my Republican colleagues held a hearing about birth control and refused to include a single woman on the first panel as a witness, I asked, "Where are the women?"
-- Carolyn Maloney -
I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.
-- Cassandra Clare -
This year women learned that if we aren't at the table, we're on the menu.
-- Cecile Richards -
I was playing pretty boys and these angelic roles like Nicholas Nickleby and all that stuff. And I was like, 'What am I doing? This isn't who I am, as a man or an artist.' I had to overcome people's belief that I was too pretty to be a badass.
-- Charlie Hunnam -
It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.
-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -
Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win.
-- Christiane Amanpour -
If you come back in here, I'm gonna hit you with so many rights, you're gonna beg for a left.
-- Chuck Norris -
Naval Special Warfare is no place for the weak of heart, limb, or liver.
-- Chuck Pfarrer
