Badass Quotes - Page 6

• Maybe I was a pirate in my past life. I didn’t kill people, though. I was just a badass

  Dianna Agron

  Past, People, Pirate

  FaceBook post by Dianna Agron from Aug 29, 2012

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• I know for some girls, tight clothes make them feel like they can take on the world-and that's fine too. But I don't think that sexy only means showing skin: It's all about wearing whatever makes you feel the most badass.

  Holland Roden

  Girl, Sexy, Mean

  "Teen Wolf Star Holland Roden: 'Sexy Means Wearing Whatever Makes You Feel Badass'". www.seventeen.com. August 7, 2014.

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• A design isn't finished until someone is using it.

  Brenda Laurel

  Bad Ass, Design, Finished

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• Architecture never derived its force from stability of culture, but rather from the expression of those moments when that sense of stability slipped.

  Mark Wigley

  Inspiration, Bad Ass, Expression

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• People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something that the world didn't know it was missing.

  Paola Antonelli

  Attitude, Technology, Bad Ass

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• We're not the Faster-than-the-Speed-of-Light Generation anymore. We're not even the Next-New-Thing Generation. We're the Soon-to-Be-Obsolete Kids, and we've crowded in here to hide from the future and the past. We know what's up - the future looms straight ahead like a black wrought-iron gate and the past is charging after us like a badass Doberman, only this one doesn't have any letup in him.

  Tim Tharp

  Growing Up, Kids, Past

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• Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It's hard work that makes things happen. It's hard work that creates change.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Inspirational, Dream, Women

  Shonda Rhimes (2015). “Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• I wanted to start a website for teenaged girls that was not kind of this one-dimensional strong character empowerment thing, because one thing that can be very alienating about a misconception of feminism is that girls then think that to be feminists, they have to live up to being perfectly consistent in their beliefs, never being insecure, never having doubts, having all the answers...and this is not true and actually, recognizing all the contradictions I was feeling became easier once I realized that feminism was not a rule book but a discussion, a conversation, a process.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Girl, Strong, Book

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• I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Law, One Day, Dissent

  "Court Is ‘One of Most Activist,’ Ginsburg Says, Vowing to Stay" by Adam Liptak, www.nytimes.com. August 24, 2013.

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• There's not just one trans story. There's not just one trans experience.

  Laverne Cox

  Stories, Trans, Just One

  "Laverne Cox Talks to TIME About the Transgender Movement" by Katy Steinmetz, time.com. May 29, 2014.

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• Believe it or not, when we were first married, our combined monthly student loan bills were actually higher than our mortgage.

  Michelle Obama

  Believe, Bills, Firsts

  Michelle Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.npr.org. September 4, 2012.

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• I'm Nancy Pelosi, but my grandchildren call me Mimi. For me, politics is an extension of my role as a mother and a grandmother. For the Democratic women of the House, our work is not about the next election, but rather the next generation.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Mother, Grandchildren, House

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

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• But America was built by optimists. Optimists like my friend Amanda, who recently started a small business. When she went to buy her website address-her first and last name-she found that someone already owned it, but wasn't using it. So my friend emailed the owner of the site to ask if she could buy it. The owner wrote back.

  Eva Longoria

  Names, America, Addresses

  Eva Longoria's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• She is a 13-year-old girl who shares Amanda's name, and politely explained that she could not give up the website. Why? Because the younger Amanda plans to be president of the United States, and she's going to need the website for her campaign.

  Eva Longoria

  Girl, Giving Up, Years

  Eva Longoria's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• Where are the women? The women are here.

  Carolyn Maloney

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

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• 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

  Class, Long, Sitting

  "Patty Murray Speech Text: Read The DNC Remarks", www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• This year women learned that if we aren't at the table, we're on the menu.

  Cecile Richards

  Years, Tables, Menus

  Cecile Richards' Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.

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• There two things that are infinite, human stupidity and the universe, I don't know about the universe

  Albert Einstein

  Two, Stupidity, Infinite

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• COULD I PASS A WEEK IN THE INSANE WARD AT BLACKWELL'S ISLAND? I SAID I COULD AND I WOULD. AND I DID.

  Nellie Bly

  Islands, Insane, Week

  Nellie Bly (2016). “Ten Days in a Mad-House”, p.4, Nellie Bly

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• '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

  Men, Talking, Use

  Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.103, Golgotha Press

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• 'VERY WELL,' I SAID ANGRILY, 'START THE MAN, AND I'LL START THE SAME DAY FOR SOME OTHER NEWSPAPER AND BEAT HIM.'

  Nellie Bly

  Men, He Man, Said

  Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.103, Golgotha Press

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• 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

  Confusing, Becoming, Eager Beaver

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• You guys (Boko Haram) are trying so hard to convince everybody that you're such badasses. But all you've done with this kidnapping is highlight who the real badasses are, the kids you kidnapped. Compared to a teenager who knows that her desire for an education could get her dragged into a snake infested jungle to be sold as a bribe to some demented, stick-chewing cartoon villain but still gets up and goes to class everyday, fully aware of that danger - compared to their courage - I'd say Boko Haram is a bunch of little girls. But, you know what? You don't deserve that compliment.

  Jon Stewart

  Girl, Teenager, Real

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• I’d said it before and meant it: Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass.

  Richelle Mead

  Humor, Love Of My Life, Alive

  Richelle Mead (2009). “Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.217, Penguin

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• Badass is a juvenile aspiration.

  Gabrielle Hamilton

  Aspiration, Juvenile

  Gabrielle Hamilton (2011). “Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef”, p.195, Random House

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