Badass Quotes - Page 14

• Your memo is trumping a Congressional statute. You don't have the discretion on whether to follow the law or not.

  Trey Gowdy

  Bad Ass, Law, Memos

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• I don't know why femininity should be associated with weakness. Women should be free to express who they are without thinking, 'I need to act like a man, or I need to tone it down to be successful.' That's a very good way to keep women down.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Women, Funny Motivational, Successful

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• It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

  David Allan Coe

  Bad Ass, Foundation, Looks

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• I've been on the floor and I've been heartbroken. I didn't know how I was going to stand up. But I just gave it time.

  Sandra Bullock

  Heartbroken, Women, Know How

  "Sandra Bullock on recovering from marriage split: I've been on the floor heartbroken, I didn't know how I was going to stand up". Interview with John Hiscock, www.mirror.co.uk. September 21, 2013.

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• I dropped my voice and stared into her eyes. I could tell she was trying hard not to look away. I was so furious I could have cheerfully ripped her head off. "But you're going to find out, Mom,' I said very softly."And it's gonna give you nightmares for the rest of your wasted life." Oh, my God, I was so badass. It was all I could do to not give a MWA HA HA!

  James Patterson

  Mom, Eye, Voice

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• Charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.

  Pink

  Fun, Bad Ass, Easier

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• Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.

  Nido R Qubein

  Inspirational, Workout, Bad Ass

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• I call architecture frozen music.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Music, Bad Ass, Frozen

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1839). “Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life”, p.282

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  The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational, Strength, Motivational Sports

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• I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

  Yoshio Taniguchi

  Hope, Bad Ass, Tea

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• Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

  Barbra Streisand

  Women, Passion, Commitment

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• Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

  Emma Thompson

  Past, Care, Judged

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• The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Witty, Mistake, Humorous

  The New York Times Magazine, October 04, 1953.

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• History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Positive, Humorous

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• I will either be America's greatest president or its last.

  Abraham Lincoln

  America, President, Lasts

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  Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid.

  John Wayne

  Funny, Life, Leadership

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• Who's Myrnin?" Claire controlled an urge to roll her eyes. "Badass crazy vampire scientist who's my boss." "You realize no part of that sentence made sense, right?

  Rachel Caine

  Crazy, Eye, Boss

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town: The Morganville Vampires”, p.231, Penguin

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• Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

  Margaret Cho

  Beauty, Beautiful, Ugly

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• I’m Charlotte Davidson: private investigator, police consultant, all -around badass. Or I could’ve been a badass, had I stuck with those lessons in mixed martial arts. I was only in that class to learn how to kill people with paper.

  Darynda Jones

  Art, Class, People

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.365, St. Martin's Press

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• Members of Congress are incredibly blessed and fortune to have the jobs that we have. Nobody makes us run. Every two years we offer for public office, and if you don't want to do it then don't run. But the notion that you can make $174,000 in this country and be underpaid is laughable.

  Trey Gowdy

  Running, Country, Jobs

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• You are not Kaia the Disappointment. Do you hear me? That’s what I was trying to tell you earlier. You are Kaia the Mighty. How many Harpies out there do you think could have brought down the most badass Lord of the Underworld? The same Lord who also happens to be the strongest, sexiest and smartest. And by the way, in case there’s any doubt, I’m describing me.

  Gena Showalter

  Disappointment, Thinking, Doubt

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Surrender”, p.193, HQN Books

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• Adrian gave me a look that said I was wasting his time. "Because Jet sounds badass.

  Richelle Mead

  Sound, Looks, Said

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.141, Penguin

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• I can be a badass DJ when I want, but I am also an insufferable music snob.

  Rachel Cohn

  Want, Snob, Insufferable

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.12, Egmont UK

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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

  Bad Ass, Space, Design

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