Badass Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• '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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• And last but not the least

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Lasts

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

  Kevin McCloud

  Bad Ass, Fancy, Architecture

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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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• 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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• 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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• Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.

  Chris Bangle

  Bad Ass, Thinking, Design

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• The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, Powerful, Moving

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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