quotes about Bad Ass
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Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
-- Adolf Loos -
I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history when men - insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea - have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included
-- Adrienne Rich -
I'm a kind person, I'm kind to everyone, but if you are unkind to me, then kindness is not what you'll remember me for
-- Al Capone -
Truly creative people care a little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing. Their driving focus is the life force that surges in them now.
-- Alan Cohen -
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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 -
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
-- Albert CamusSource : Albert Camus (1965). “Notebooks, 1942-1951”
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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
-- Albert Camus -
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
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I used to have a wild night with three women until 5am., but I am getting older. In the Olympic village here, I will live it up with five women, but only until 3am.
-- Alberto Tomba -
I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.
-- Amy Winehouse -
Tell the negative committee that meets inside your head to sit down and shut up.
-- Ann B. Davis -
Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith there is no anxiety and no doubt - just absolute confidence in yourself.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit!
-- AugustusSource : "The Fall of the Roman Empire". Book by Rita J. Markel, January 10, 2007.
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In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose.
-- Augustus Welby Northmore PuginSource : Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1853). “The true principles of pointed or Christian architecture: set forth in two lectures delivered at St. Marie's, Oscott”, p.9
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I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
-- Ayn Rand -
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
-- Ayn Rand -
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The process begins with the individual woman’s acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and that labeling ourselves feminists does not change the fact that we must consciously work to rid ourselves of the legacy of negative socialization.
-- Bell Hooks -
We've dressed up in our best and are prepared to go down like gentlemen.
-- Benjamin Guggenheim -
Aging is not 'lost youth,' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. It's a different stage of life, and if you are going to pretend it's youth, you are going to miss it. You are going to miss the surprises, the possibilities, and the evolution that we are just beginning to know about because there are no role models, no guideposts, and no signs.
-- Betty Friedan -
We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.
-- Bill Bryson -
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A design isn't finished until someone is using it.
-- Brenda Laurel -
An object should be judged by whether it has a form consistent with its use.
-- Bruno MunariSource : Bruno Munari (1971). “Design as art”, Penguin Books Ltd
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Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you've been waiting for.
-- Byron Katie -
The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later, or six months, or six years. But he has faith that it will happen.
-- Carl Ally -
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I wish you all had one neck that I had my hands on it.
-- Carl Panzram -
I'm convinced that without bad design, the world would be a far less stimulating place; we would have nothing to marvel over and nothing to be nostalgic about.
-- Carrie Fulton Phillips -
Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.
-- Cecil B. DeMille -
The desire to reach for the sky runs very deep in the human psyche.
-- Cesar Pelli -
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Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings
-- Cheris Kramarae -
Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.
-- Chris Bangle -
Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
-- Chuck NorrisSource : Chuck Norris (2014). “The Official Chuck Norris Fact Book: 101 of Chuck's Favorite Facts and Stories”, p.102, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
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Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'
-- Clare Boothe Luce -
They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.
-- Creighton W. Abrams, Jr. -
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If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.
-- Curtis LeMay -
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.
-- Daniel Libeskind -
Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.
-- Daniel Libeskind -
We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect.
-- Daniel Libeskind -
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It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.
-- David Allan Coe -
That's the world of policing. I've met some bad-ass female cops, who are very cool people.
-- David Ayer -
There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular; to look like it is changing the world. I don't care how a building looks if it means something, not to architects, but to the people who use it.
-- David Chipperfield -
You can't love other people until you love yourself.
-- Demi Lovato -
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At the end of the day it doesn't matter what anybody else thinks as long as you're happy.
-- Demi Lovato -
It's gonna be okay, no matter how hard your rock bottom is, you can rise above it and you can come back.
-- Demi Lovato -
Your imperfections make you beautiful, they make you who you are.
-- Demi Lovato -
Go ahead and believe that no one shines brighter than you. Become amazing, and be happy.
-- Demi Lovato -
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No matter who you are, where you've come from, what you've been through... You can make a difference in this world.
-- Demi Lovato -
The eyes healed in a matter of a few days, as eyes heal quickly, mine just heal faster than anybody else. I was back in the strip club hours later rehabbing my eyes.
-- Don Frye -
Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.
-- Donatella VersaceSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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You are remembered for the rules you break.
-- Douglas MacArthur -
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I'm just as famous as my mentor... but that's still the boss don't get sent for
-- Drake -
I'm never scared, they never real, I never run. When all is said and done, more is always said than done.
-- Drake -
Being a true bad ***** has no weight or gender requirement - just 100% commitment to greatness.
-- Dwayne Johnson -
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It's easy to be a bad ass, it's easy to act like a bad ass, easy to act like a tough guy, it's easy to be a diva, and it's easy to be self absorbed. The list goes on and on but to me, I always just find it more important to be nice and kind.
-- Dwayne Johnson -
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
-- Edna St. Vincent MillaySource : Edna St. Vincent Millay (1952). “Letters”
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It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
-- Edward de Bono -
Hurry it up! I want to be in hell in time for dinner.
-- Edward H. RulloffSource : Edward H. Rulloff's last words before he was hanged, May 18, 1871.
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The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room.
-- El LissitzkySource : El Lissitzky (1968). “El Lissitzky: life, letters, texts”
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America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt -
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
-- Ernest DimnetSource : What We Live By (1932) pt. 2, ch. 12
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To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it.
-- Ernest HemingwaySource : Paula McLain (2011). “The Paris Wife: A Novel”, p.286, Ballantine Books
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When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.
-- Ernest Hemingway -
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
-- Ernest Hemingway -
There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
-- Ernest Hemingway -
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In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it.
-- Erwin Rommel -
I think I was born to be a figure skater, I think it was fate, and I thank God for letting it happen.
-- Evgeni Plushenko -
It doesn't matter what kind of result will be in the end. I already win for myself.
-- Evgeni Plushenko -
It's everything for me. Without figure skating, I am nothing.
-- Evgeni Plushenko -
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This one doesn't exist. The prettiest girl and the best car don't exist as well.
-- Evgeni Plushenko -
I try not to think about marks, the first place or gold medal. The most important thing is to show what you are capable of on ice. The rest will come on its own.
-- Evgeni Plushenko -
I skate for the fans. It's not as fun without them there supporting me. I get energy from them and I want to skate well for them. They relax me. They make me happy when I skate for them. I feel the Americans like me more and more each time I tour.
-- Evgeni Plushenko -
I'm a wealthy man now. I've got a flat, a car, I have enough money to buy food. I skate to make the people happy. If somebody skates to earn money, I don't care. I skate for the people. Besides, it's pleasant to supply Russia with gold medals.
-- Evgeni Plushenko -
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I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very important to get the audience on your side. As for a competition, you can't win without strong technical content.
-- Evgeni Plushenko -
Viktor Petrenko and I met at a competition, where I beat him completely accidentally. I felt so embarrassed in front of my idol.
-- Evgeni Plushenko -
I just adore jumping. I do the rest as it is supposed to be done.
-- Evgeni Plushenko -
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If the Olympic champion doesn't know how to jump quad, I don't know. Now it's not figure skating. Now it's dancing.
-- Evgeni Plushenko -
I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.
-- Frank Gehry -
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
-- Frank GehrySource : "Home". Book by Kim Johnson Gross, Jeff Stone, and Julie V. Iovine, p. 43, 1993.
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Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright -
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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright -
Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.
-- Frank StellaSource : Frank Stella, Bonnie Clearwater (2000). “Frank Stella at 2000”, Museum of Contemporary Art
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I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward.
-- Fridtjof Nansen -
I understand that, today, some developers are asking architects to design eye-catching, iconic buildings. Fortunately, I've not had that kind of client so far.
-- Fumihiko Maki -
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If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you
-- Genghis KhanSource : "History of the World Conqueror" by 'Ala-ad-Din 'Ata-Malik Juvain, translated by J.A. Boyle, p. 105, 1958.
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Life is half spent before we know what it is.
-- George HerbertSource : George Herbert (1841). “The remains of ... George Herbert”, p.177
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All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton -
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I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.
-- Grandma MosesSource : "Grandma Moses : My Life's History". Book by Grandma Moses, 1951.
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Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
-- H. L. MenckenSource : H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd
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While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
-- Helen Keller -
Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.
-- Helen Keller -
The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can't are both right. Which one are you?
-- Henry Ford -