Bad Ass Quotes - Page 9

• We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• The book is almost always better than the movie. You could have no better case in point than FROM HELL, Alan Moore's best graphic novel to date, brilliantly illustrated by Eddie Campbell. It's hard to describe just how much better the book is. It's like, "If the movie was an episode of Battlestar Galactica with a guest appearance by the Smurfs and everyone spoke Dutch, the graphic novel is Citizen Kane with added sex scenes and music by your favourite ten bands and everyone in the world you ever hated dies at the end." That's how much better it is.

  Warren Ellis

  Sex, Book, Band

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• I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Mean, Making A Living

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• The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Goodbye, Farewell, Eye

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• Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Death, Rip

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Typewriters, Scary

  "Exclusive: Never-Before-Seen Photos from Hemingway's Childhood" by James Joiner, www.esquire.com. October 24, 2013.

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• 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

  Men, Hunting, Long

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

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• It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.

  Michelangelo

  Badass, Men, Architecture

  Michelangelo Buonarroti, E. H. Ramsden (1963). “The Letters of Michelangelo”, p.129, Stanford University Press

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• I grew up in the 80s in England: we'd wake up each morning and look out the window to see if the government had finally put Daleks on the streets.

  Warren Ellis

  Morning, Government, Looks

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• Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Struggle, Fighting

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

  Philip Johnson

  Funny, Art, Badass

  New York Times 27 Dec. 1964, p. 9E

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• I bizarrely think that this [Sin City] is the perfect date movie. If a guy took me on a date to see this movie, I would marry him, for sure. It's bad-ass chicks and rad dudes, who are sexy, all over the place, and there's so much cool action.

  Jessica Alba

  Sexy, Thinking, Sin City

  "Jessica Alba, Josh Brolin, Joseph Gordon-levitt, Eva Green, Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller Talk Sin City: a Dame to Kill for". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 19, 2014.

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• Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life Is Good, Expression, Focus

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  The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Inspirational, Change, Lying

  "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money". Book by John Maynard Keynes (Preface), 1936.

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• While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Determination, Done

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• Don't worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test... Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap - but it was a revolutionary piece of crap.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Money, Business, Creativity

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• Ask yourself this question, will this matter a year from now?

  Richard Carlson

  Letting Go, Not Giving Up, Years

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• 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 Stella

  Badass, Real, Personality

  Frank Stella, Bonnie Clearwater (2000). “Frank Stella at 2000”, Museum of Contemporary Art

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• All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

  Philip Johnson

  Badass, Space, Design

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• Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Inspirational, Life, Inspirational Life

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• There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Wise, Worry

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.277, Vintage

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• If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Success, Witty

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• Undoubtedly, there are kids with intellectual deficiencies or neurological problems. But a lot of kids shunted into special education classes are deficient only in a willingness to conform to the school pattern.They are just honest, brave kids who say, "I just won't take that, and I don't believe in what you're doing." If you give them an alternative to the usual classroom, they break free of a lot of inhibitions and bad associations, and they begin to learn.

  Seymour Papert

  Believe, School, Kids

  "Sunday Interview - Seymour Papert/ Computers in the Lives of Our Children/ an Mit Mathematician and Philosopher Is Exploring How Technology Can Educate the Next Generation - and Their Parents". www.sfgate.com. February 2, 1997.

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• The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room.

  El Lissitzky

  Badass, Inspiration, Space

  El Lissitzky (1968). “El Lissitzky: life, letters, texts”

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