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• To be honest, I never thought I'd be famous for baseball. I want to play basketball, and I could also do both basketball and baseball - but I really want to play basketball.

  Mo'ne Davis

  Basketball, Baseball, Play

  "Mo’ne Davis on this week’s national Sports Illustrated cover". Sports Illustrated Interview, www.si.com. August 19, 2014.

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• I never thought I'd be a role model at this age. I just have to be myself.

  Mo'ne Davis

  Role Models, Age, Roles

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• People were like, 'Oh, there are going to be people running up to you taking pictures' and I thought it was going to be a bunch of little kids. But it's grown-ups! And that's, like, creepy.

  Mo'ne Davis

  Running, Kids, People

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• Probably like a couple of years from now, there'll be a lot of girls here, and then it won't be just like all boys, so they'll have to build like another dorm for girls, so it'll be a huge impact if more girls start playing.

  Mo'ne Davis

  Girl, Couple, Boys

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• I don't really like all the attention, because it feels like everything is about winning and they don't see the whole picture of my teammates and without my teammates, I don't think we'd be here right now. I get the attention ... if that day, I'm in the mood of signing autographs and taking pictures and even if I'm not, I'm like, he'll sign it for you, or he'll sign it for you. I can always give all the attention to my teammates because they handle it well.

  Mo'ne Davis

  Thinking, Winning, Giving

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• I think life is always dangerous. Some people get afraid of it. Some people don't go forward. But some people, if they want to achieve their goal, they have to go. They have to move.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Women, Moving, Thinking

  "Malala Yousafzai Felt Fear All the Time but Pursued Learning" By Teri Whitcraft, Muriel Pearson, abcnews.go.com. October 7, 2013.

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• I'm always looking for those places where you can slam really disparate people up against one another, and they have to deal with each other. There are very few crossroads anymore. We talk about this country as this big melting pot, but it's a mosaic. There's all these pieces, they're next to each other, they're not necessarily mixing. And I'm looking for those spaces where people actually do mix.

  Jenji Kohan

  Country, Space, People

  "'Orange' Creator Jenji Kohan: 'Piper Was My Trojan Horse'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 13, 2013.

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• I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I nor the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

  Julia Louis-Dreyfus

  Agendas, Worldly Wisdom, Offers

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• It's really cool to see how many awesome, badass ladies are out there now just doing their thing and putting their foot down, saying, "Nope. You're not going to tell me I'm doing something women shouldn't be doing." It's a scary time but also I think a really important time. I'm happy to see how much girls are responding to a lot of the other powerful big boys swimming out there right now.

  Bethany Cosentino

  Girl, Powerful, Swimming

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I never pretended to be rock star. I would make a lousy rock star. I don't have the right voice for it. I don't have the "sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll" spirit. But the greatest flattery in the last couple of years is being called a "badass" by young singers.

  Joan Baez

  Couple, Drug, Spirit

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure.

  Zaha Hadid

  Bad Ass, Thinking, Hands

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• Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Bad Ass, Reality, Men

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• Hollywood wants to make women so perfect. Perfect hair. Perfect job. Perfect manners... I know some of the most beautiful women, and they are so weird. That's what makes them funny and captivating.

  Melissa McCarthy

  Beautiful, Jobs, Hair

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• I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

  Veronica Roth

  Book, People, Want

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• Confidence is the only key. I know a lot of people who aren't traditionally 'beautiful' - not symmetrical or perfect-bodied or perfect-skinned. But none of that matters because all that shines through is their confidence, humor, and comfort with themselves. I can't think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.

  Emma Stone

  Beautiful, Thinking, Keys

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other words, to separate the microclimate from the macro space outside. This in itself is a sacred act. Architecture in itself conveys this idea of limiting space. It's a limit between the finite and the infinite. From this point of view, all architecture is sacred.

  Mario Botta

  Inspiration, Bad Ass, Drawing

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• Home is where you hang your architect.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Home, Bad Ass, Architecture

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• The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather than the God of Being-Good.

  Richard Saul Wurman

  Bad Ass, Design, Fundamentals

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• When we build, let us think that we build forever.

  John Ruskin

  Bad Ass, Thinking, Forever

  Seven Lamps of Architecture "The Lamp of Memory" sec. 10 (1849)

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• As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

  Norman Foster

  Past, Bad Ass, Design

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• I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.

  Frank Gehry

  Bad Ass, People, Architecture

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• There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular; to look like it is changing the world. I don't care how a building looks if it means something, not to architects, but to the people who use it.

  David Chipperfield

  Mean, Bad Ass, People

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• Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of the fact that what is important is life, friends and attempting to make this unjust world a better place in which to live.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Bad Ass, Important, Facts

  "The Curves of Time: The Memoirs of Oscar Niemeyer". Book by Oscar Niemeyer, 1998.

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• The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room.

  El Lissitzky

  Inspiration, Bad Ass, Space

  El Lissitzky (1968). “El Lissitzky: life, letters, texts”

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• In the face of the economic plight, it is our task to become pioneers of simplicity, that is, to find a simple form for all of life's necessities, which is at the same time respectable and genuine.

  Oskar Schlemmer

  Inspiration, Simple, Bad Ass

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