Badass Quotes - Page 5

• 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

  Eye, Bad Ass, Design

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• Nothing in this world is more simple and more cheap than making cities that provide better for people.

  Jan Gehl

  Simple, Bad Ass, Cities

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• Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Eye, Soldier, D Day

  Order of the Day, 2 June 1944

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• And last but not the least

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Lasts

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• He shouldn't have been in the NBA, but we were too cheap to pay for a point guard.

  Kobe Bryant

  Nba, Pay, Point Guard

  "Kobe, Smush Parker go at it again". www.espn.com. October 13, 2012.

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• When it comes to being badass nothing beats this It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.

  Lionel Messi

  Years, Beats, Overnight Success

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• There will be no withdrawal without written orders and these orders shall never be issued.

  Sam Manekshaw

  Military, Army, Order

  "Sam Manekshaw, soldier, died on June 27th, aged 94", www.economist.com. July 3, 2008.

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• Truth and clarity are complementary.

  Niels Bohr

  Clarity, Complementary

  "Quantum Theory and the Flight from Realism: Philosophical Responses to Quantum Mechanics". Book by Christopher Norris, 2000.

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• Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the moon.

  Bruno Zevi

  Art, Dark, Moon

  Bruno Zevi (1957). “Architecture as space: how to look at architecture”

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• The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism.

  Kevin McCloud

  Bad Ass, Fancy, Architecture

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• Very often the opinion of the clients must be disregarded in their own interest.

  John Mercer Johnson

  Bad Ass, Clients, Opinion

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• An object should be judged by whether it has a form consistent with its use.

  Bruno Munari

  Bad Ass, Use, Form

  Bruno Munari (1971). “Design as art”, Penguin Books Ltd

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• 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

  Bad Ass, Design, Would Be

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• The desire to reach for the sky runs very deep in the human psyche.

  Cesar Pelli

  Running, Bad Ass, Flying High

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• Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by outward things On stone or canvas, having in themselves No separate existence. Architecture, Existing in itself, and not in seeming A something it is not, surpasses them As substance shadow.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Art, Bad Ass, Shadow

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1489, Delphi Classics

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• Butterflies were small and light, and very magic sensitive. For some reason I made them feel safe and they gravitated to me like iron shavings to a magnet. They ruined my ferocious badass image, but you'd have to be a complete beast to swat butterflies.

  Ilona Andrews

  Butterfly, Light, Iron

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Dreams: A Penguin Special from Ace”, p.35, Penguin

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• In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose.

  Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

  Bad Ass, Should Have, Details

  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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• The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made.

  Louis Kahn

  Bad Ass, Doe, Rooms

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• They don't know you're secretly a badass?

  Rachel Caine

  Knows

  Rachel Caine (2013). “Fall of Night: The Morganville Vampires”, p.102, Penguin

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• We work on macro issues and macaroni and cheese issues. When women are in the halls of power, our national debate reflects the needs and dreams of American families.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Dream, Issues, Needs

  "Women in the US Senate: a guide to the 20 female senators" by Emma G. Keller, www.theguardian.com. November 09, 2012.

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• There are things about the production I'm not crazy about though. People mix records to be heard in cars and to have the bass incredibly loud so the vocals have to fight with everything so there's no dynamic left, and that's kind of a bummer. That may not be my taste but I'm not going to go, "Kanye's not very good," because he's pretty badass. It's a difference in taste, like the New Pornographers and myself have different taste in production as well but it all works out in the end.

  Neko Case

  Crazy, Fighting, People

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• I feel like every movie has been wish fulfillment. For The Heat, I love Lethal Weapon. I watch it over and over again. I always wanted a friend like that; I always wanted to be the badass taking down the drug dealers. It was basically just writing what I wished I could be. Female friendship is so interesting to me. I often feel like when you make female friends as adults, it's polite. I wish it was less polite and you could be frank and mess around with each other.

  Katie Dippold

  Writing, Interesting, Drug

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• I'm definitely in the market for being uncool. There was some funny stuff, like the thing about making sure I show people that I have tattoos and cigarettes so that they know I'm badass. But really, I do have tattoos! And I do smoke cigarettes sometimes, and I can't change that. But I am not badass, by any means. I do some stuff that's tongue-in-cheek, and some stuff that's on the line. And it could be funny, it could be serious, and I never even know myself, because it could be funny that day, and the next day it's totally embarrassing.

  Ryan Adams

  Tattoo, Mean, Next Day

  Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2004.

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• Have a go-to pump up song. Mine is Shakira's 'Waka Waka' from the 2010 World Cup (don't judge). Play it only when you're ready to turn into your most badass self.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Song, Self, Play

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• My mom could be really fierce. A regular Frau Badass.

  Kresley Cole

  Mom, Fierce, My Mom

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