Top Badass Quotes Collection
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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.Collection: Badass
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.Collection: Badass
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.Collection: Badass
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.Collection: Badass
When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.Collection: Badass
When it comes to being badass nothing beats this It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.Collection: Badass
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.Collection: Badass
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.Collection: Badass
I am ten different kinds of badass now! [Alucard Hellsing]Collection: Badass
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.Collection: Badass
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 themCollection: Badass
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.Collection: Badass
One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.Collection: Badass
Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.Collection: Badass
If you come back in here, I'm gonna hit you with so many rights, you're gonna beg for a left.Collection: Badass
In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.Collection: Badass
Maybe I was a pirate in my past life. I didn’t kill people, though. I was just a badassCollection: Badass
ENERGY RIGHTLY APPLIED CAN ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING.Collection: Badass
'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.'Collection: Badass
'VERY WELL,' I SAID ANGRILY, 'START THE MAN, AND I'LL START THE SAME DAY FOR SOME OTHER NEWSPAPER AND BEAT HIM.'Collection: Badass
ACCEPT PRAISE FOR ITS WORTH - POLITENESS. BE BRUTALLY FRANK WITH YOURSELF. IT'S SAFER.Collection: Badass
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.Collection: Badass
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.Collection: Badass
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.Collection: Badass
It's a little dangerous to be a badass.Collection: Badass
Quantum phenomena do not occur in a Hilbert space. They occur in a laboratory.Collection: Badass
A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.Collection: Badass
An object should be judged by whether it has a form consistent with its use.Collection: Badass
Nothing in this world is more simple and more cheap than making cities that provide better for people.Collection: Badass
Very often the opinion of the clients must be disregarded in their own interest.Collection: Badass
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.Collection: Badass
In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose.Collection: Badass
As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.Collection: Badass
We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.Collection: Badass
This year women learned that if we aren't at the table, we're on the menu.Collection: Badass
Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.Collection: Badass
We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect.Collection: Badass
A profound design process eventually makes the patron, the architect, and every occasional visitor in the building a slightly better human being.Collection: Badass
The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.Collection: Badass
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.Collection: Badass
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.Collection: Badass
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.Collection: Badass
The president already has a Nobel Prize for peace. I think he's shooting for one in fiction.Collection: Badass
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.Collection: Badass
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.Collection: Badass
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.Collection: Badass
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.Collection: Badass
Form ever follows function.Collection: Badass
There will be no withdrawal without written orders and these orders shall never be issued.Collection: Badass