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• 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

  Blessing, Bad Ass, Appreciate

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• If a young woman is looking at the landscape of Hollywood, what she sees is almost only challenges.

  Lena Dunham

  Challenges, Landscape, Hollywood

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• For so long, I was searching for something to be proud of. But at a certain point, I realized, 'Wait, I'm doing what I want to be doing. I'm not wanting to do it; I'm doing it.' And that's awesome.

  Pink

  Bad Ass, Long, Waiting

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• If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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• There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Preparation, Luck, Adequate

  Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Have Space Suit, Will Travel”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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  If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.

  Genghis Khan

  Bad Ass, Punishment, Sin

  "History of the World Conqueror" by 'Ala-ad-Din 'Ata-Malik Juvain, translated by J.A. Boyle, p. 105, 1958.

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• Maybe 23 cents doesn't sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account, Cayman Island Investments and an IRA worth tens of millions of dollars. But Governor Romney, when we lose 23 cents every hour, every day, every paycheck, every job, over our entire lives, what we lose can't just be measured in dollars.

  Lilly Ledbetter

  Jobs, Islands, Sound

  Lilly Ledbetter's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it.

  Kobe Bryant

  Hurt, Night, Feet

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• People always ask me if I wish I were bigger. I tell them no. I always wanted to be a miniature badass.

  Dustin Pedroia

  People, Wish, Bigger

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• It's kind of cool—and it makes me feel like a badass. I get more girls than my boyfriend. They always tweet me about my booty.

  Naya Rivera

  Girl, My Boyfriend, Booty

  "Naya Rivera Poses Naked: ‘Glee’ Star Sexy And Confident In Allure", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2013.

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• 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

  Mom, Mean, Healthy

  Carolyn Maloney's Speech at Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• 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

  Lying, Hate, Compassion

  Constantine P. Cavafy, “Thermopylae”

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• I wonder whether those of our political masters who have been put in charge of the defence of the country can distinguish a mortar from a motor; a gun from a howitzer; a guerrilla from a gorilla, although a great many resemble the latter.

  Sam Manekshaw

  Country, Army, Gun

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• In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.

  Nancy Banks-Smith

  Bad Ass, Doors, Legs

  Guardian 20 Feb. 1979

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• The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, Powerful, Moving

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• One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

  Renzo Piano

  Bad Ass, Architecture, Starting

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• To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Meaningful, Bad Ass, Design

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• They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!

  Mel Gibson

  Movie, Veterans Day, Freedom

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  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

  Kindness, Bad Ass, Remember

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• Wake up! Time to die!

  Brion James

  Death, Blade Runner, Dying

  "Fictional character: Leon". "Blade Runner", 1982.

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• If you come back in here, I'm gonna hit you with so many rights, you're gonna beg for a left.

  Chuck Norris

  Rights, Ifs, Left

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• 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

  Bad Ass, Thinking, Design

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• I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot — but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Bad Ass, Gentleman, Moose

  "The Speech That Saved Teddy Roosevelt’s Life" by Patricia O’Toole, www.smithsonianmag.com. November 2012.

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• Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Bad Ass, Architecture, Importance

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• Only one thing counts in this life - get them to sign on the line that is dotted.

  Alec Baldwin

  Lines, This Life, One Thing

  "Fictional character: Blake". Glengarry Glen Ross, www.imdb.com. 1992.

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