Top Badass Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Badass quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Oscar Niemeyer
Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of the fact that what is important is life, friends and attempting to make this unjust world a better place in which to live.
- Oscar Niemeyer
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Image of Barbara Walters
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
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Image of Robert De Niro
You talking to me? You talking to me? Then who the hell else are you talking to - you talking to me? Well, I'm the only one here.
- Robert De Niro
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Image of Frank Lloyd Wright
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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Image of Walter Payton
When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.
- Walter Payton
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Image of Lionel Messi
When it comes to being badass nothing beats this It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.
- Lionel Messi
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Image of Patty Murray
Simply, with a Republican Congress sitting shotgun, Mitt Romney will put the middle class on the roof and take us for a long, painful ride.
- Patty Murray
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Image of Emma Watson
Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it's a process. It's often not cool to be the person who puts themselves out there.
- Emma Watson
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Image of Kohta Hirano
I am ten different kinds of badass now! [Alucard Hellsing]
- Kohta Hirano
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Image of Pink
To experience the good you have to have seen the bad; plus it makes you appreciate blessings more. Tough times taught me to be a fighter.
- Pink
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Image of Shonda Rhimes
At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them
- Shonda Rhimes
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Image of Kerry Washington
We need to be willing to be uncomfortable, to be flawed, to be imperfect, to own our voice, to step into our light, so that we can continue to inspire other people and employ other people, and make room for more and more voices and presence.
- Kerry Washington
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Image of Renzo Piano
One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.
- Renzo Piano
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Image of Renzo Piano
Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.
- Renzo Piano
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Image of Chuck Norris
If you come back in here, I'm gonna hit you with so many rights, you're gonna beg for a left.
- Chuck Norris
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Image of Sheryl Sandberg
In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.
- Sheryl Sandberg
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Image of Dianna Agron
Maybe I was a pirate in my past life. I didn’t kill people, though. I was just a badass
- Dianna Agron
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Image of Nellie Bly
ENERGY RIGHTLY APPLIED CAN ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING.
- Nellie Bly
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Image of Nellie Bly
'IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU TO DO IT,' WAS THE TERRIBLE VERDICT. 'IN THE FIRST PLACE YOU ARE A WOMAN AND WOULD NEED A PROTECTOR, AND EVEN IF IT WERE POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO TRAVEL ALONE YOU WOULD NEED TO CARRY SO MUCH BAGGAGE THAT IT WOULD DETAIN YOU IN MAKING RAPID CHANGES. BESIDES YOU SPEAK NOTHING BUT ENGLISH, SO THERE IS NO USE TALKING ABOUT IT; NO ONE BUT A MAN CAN DO THIS.'
- Nellie Bly
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Image of Nellie Bly
'VERY WELL,' I SAID ANGRILY, 'START THE MAN, AND I'LL START THE SAME DAY FOR SOME OTHER NEWSPAPER AND BEAT HIM.'
- Nellie Bly
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Image of Nellie Bly
ACCEPT PRAISE FOR ITS WORTH - POLITENESS. BE BRUTALLY FRANK WITH YOURSELF. IT'S SAFER.
- Nellie Bly
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Image of Michelle Obama
When you've worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity...you do not slam it shut behind you...you reach back, and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed.
- Michelle Obama
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Image of Oskar Schlemmer
In the face of the economic plight, it is our task to become pioneers of simplicity, that is, to find a simple form for all of life's necessities, which is at the same time respectable and genuine.
- Oskar Schlemmer
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Image of Tom Kundig
People who build their own home tend to be very courageous. These people are curious about life. They're thinking about what it means to live in a house, rather than just buying a commodity and making it work.
- Tom Kundig
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Image of Jill Abramson
It's a little dangerous to be a badass.
- Jill Abramson
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Image of Asher Peres
Quantum phenomena do not occur in a Hilbert space. They occur in a laboratory.
- Asher Peres
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Image of Bruno Munari
A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.
- Bruno Munari
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Image of Bruno Munari
An object should be judged by whether it has a form consistent with its use.
- Bruno Munari
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Image of Jan Gehl
Nothing in this world is more simple and more cheap than making cities that provide better for people.
- Jan Gehl
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Image of John Mercer Johnson
Very often the opinion of the clients must be disregarded in their own interest.
- John Mercer Johnson
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Image of Fumihiko Maki
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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Image of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin
In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose.
- Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin
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Image of Norman Foster
As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.
- Norman Foster
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Image of Bill Bryson
We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.
- Bill Bryson
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Image of Cecile Richards
This year women learned that if we aren't at the table, we're on the menu.
- Cecile Richards
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Image of Daniel Libeskind
Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.
- Daniel Libeskind
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Image of 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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Image of Juhani Pallasmaa
A profound design process eventually makes the patron, the architect, and every occasional visitor in the building a slightly better human being.
- Juhani Pallasmaa
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Image of Marty Neumeier
The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.
- Marty Neumeier
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Image of Mario Botta
The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other words, to separate the microclimate from the macro space outside. This in itself is a sacred act. Architecture in itself conveys this idea of limiting space. It's a limit between the finite and the infinite. From this point of view, all architecture is sacred.
- Mario Botta
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Image of David Chipperfield
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
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Image of Carrie Fulton Phillips
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
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Image of Trey Gowdy
The president already has a Nobel Prize for peace. I think he's shooting for one in fiction.
- Trey Gowdy
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Image of Trey Gowdy
I would love the chance to ask follow-up questions of Susan Rice because David Gregory apparently did not avail himself of that opportunity. Greta, I just listened to the clip - I get tougher questions in the Bojangles drive-through than he asked her.
- Trey Gowdy
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Image of Trey Gowdy
Well, I certainly hope the Democrats participate. I continue to think that some things transcend politics like the murder of four of our fellow citizens and whether or not you trust government. That is not a red or blue issue. That is an American issue. As for whether or not they boycott, I hope they don't.
- Trey Gowdy
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Image of Trey Gowdy
I can tell you this. It is not going to be evenly constituted and when she was Speaker Pelosi, she certainly showed no interests in having an equal number of Republicans and Democrats.
- Trey Gowdy
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Image of Richard Saul Wurman
The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather than the God of Being-Good.
- Richard Saul Wurman
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Image of Louis Sullivan
Form ever follows function.
- Louis Sullivan
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Image of Sam Manekshaw
There will be no withdrawal without written orders and these orders shall never be issued.
- Sam Manekshaw
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