Badass Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Wake up! Time to die!

  Brion James

  Death, Blade Runner, Dying

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

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

  Mel Gibson

  Movie, Veterans Day, Freedom

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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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