Bad Ass Quotes - Page 18

• Pain was their body's way of telling them that they'd pushed themselves to their limits - which was exactly where they were supposed to be.

  Richard Marcinko

  Pain, Way, Limits

  Richard Marcinko (1997). “Leadership Secrets of the Rogue Warrior: A Commando's Guide to Success”

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• Your life is on the line, practice well.

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Practice, Lines, Life Is

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• In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it.

  Erwin Rommel

  Military, Order, Absence

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• I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history when men - insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea - have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included

  Adrienne Rich

  Children, Believe, Men

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.44, W. W. Norton & Company

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• To be a feminist is to be alive.

  Margaret Cho

  Feminist, Alive, Ass

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Duty is the essence of manhood.

  George S. Patton

  Essence, Duty, Manhood

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• Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.

  George C. Marshall

  Spiritual, Military, War

  "A Toolbox for Humanity: More Than 9000 Years of Thought". Book by Lloyd Albert Johnson, 2004.

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• Battle... brings out all that is best.

  George S. Patton

  Indulge In, Competition, Battle

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• The god of war hates those who hesitate.

  George S. Patton

  Hate, Military, War

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• I think I was born to be a figure skater, I think it was fate, and I thank God for letting it happen.

  Evgeni Plushenko

  Fate, Thinking, Thank God

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• At school I fought sometimes. Kids were saying that figure skating is sport for the girls. Then I had to prove them wrong.

  Evgeni Plushenko

  Girl, Sports, School

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• I just adore jumping. I do the rest as it is supposed to be done.

  Evgeni Plushenko

  Jumping, Done, Adore

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• My main competitor is myself.

  Evgeni Plushenko

  Ass, Competitors

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• Viktor Petrenko and I met at a competition, where I beat him completely accidentally. I felt so embarrassed in front of my idol.

  Evgeni Plushenko

  Idols, Competition, Beats

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• I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very important to get the audience on your side. As for a competition, you can't win without strong technical content.

  Evgeni Plushenko

  Strong, Winning, Your Side

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• I'm a wealthy man now. I've got a flat, a car, I have enough money to buy food. I skate to make the people happy. If somebody skates to earn money, I don't care. I skate for the people. Besides, it's pleasant to supply Russia with gold medals.

  Evgeni Plushenko

  Men, Russia, People

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• I skate for the fans. It's not as fun without them there supporting me. I get energy from them and I want to skate well for them. They relax me. They make me happy when I skate for them. I feel the Americans like me more and more each time I tour.

  Evgeni Plushenko

  Fun, Relax, Energy

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• I try not to think about marks, the first place or gold medal. The most important thing is to show what you are capable of on ice. The rest will come on its own.

  Evgeni Plushenko

  Thinking, Ice, Important

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• What worries me though, is that after all those victories people don't see me as a human being anymore. I am not a machine, I have a heart beating in my chest -not an engine, there's blood in my veins- not oil. I know pain and fatigue. I can lose but I will strive to win everything.

  Evgeni Plushenko

  Pain, Heart, Winning

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• No matter how much crap you gotta plow through to stay alive as a photographer, no matter how many bad assignments, bad days, bad clients, snotty subjects, obnoxious handlers, wigged-out art directors, technical disasters, failures of the mind, body, and will, all the shouldas, couldas, and wouldas that befuddle our brains and creep into our dreams, always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It's the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer.

  Joe McNally

  Dream, Photography, Art

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• If you touch me, I said pleasantly, "I'll provide you with the ability to see if you can heal yourself. Then we'd see how bad ass you really are."

  Richelle Mead

  Said, Ability, Heal

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• Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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

  Badass, Inspiration, 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

  Badass, Attitude, Technology

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• Hurry it up! I want to be in hell in time for dinner.

  Edward H. Rulloff

  Want, Dinner, Hell

  Edward H. Rulloff's last words before he was hanged, May 18, 1871.

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