Badass Quotes - Page 9

• The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.

  Honore de Balzac

  Bad Ass, Events, Architecture

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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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• Kaytoo [from the Star Wars] is more even-keeled. And he's a badass. He comes from the Empire, and he's a security droid. Some people call him an enforcer droid. He has the ability to enforce things. That was what he was built for. He's tall. He has an intimidating frame.

  Alan Tudyk

  Stars, War, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I am simply submerged in work from five in the morning to eleven at night; almost need a few days off to escape a breakdown!

  Richard Neutra

  Morning, Bad Ass, Night

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• A profound design process eventually makes the patron, the architect, and every occasional visitor in the building a slightly better human being.

  Juhani Pallasmaa

  Bad Ass, Design Process, Profound

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• My job as a double was always to put [actors] at ease. My job was to make my character, or the actress that I was doubling, look as badass as possible by being there.

  Zoe Bell

  Jobs, Character, Looks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• I realized that very young - that a life where you don't live to your full potential, or you don't experiment, or you're afraid, or you hesitate, or there are things you know you should do but you just don't get around to them, is a life that I'd be miserable living, and the only way to feel that I'm on the right path is just to be true to myself, whatever that may be, and that tends to come with stepping out of something that's maybe safe or traditional.

  Angelina Jolie

  May, Safe, Way

  "Worldwide Exclusive: Angelina Jolie Opens Up". www.elle.com. May 7, 2014.

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• Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.

  Renzo Piano

  Fighting, Bad Ass, Ideas

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Home is where you hang your architect.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Home, Bad Ass, Architecture

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• Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that he could trace his ancestry back up a long line of slightly less highly evolved stupendous badasses to that first self-replicating gizmo---which, given the number and variety of its descendants, might justifiably be described as the most stupendous badass of all time. Everyone and everything that wasn't a stupendous badass was dead.

  Neal Stephenson

  Self, Numbers, Long

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• We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.

  Bill Bryson

  Bad Ass, Civilization, Shopping

  Bill Bryson (1991). “Neither here nor there: travels in Europe”, Harvill Secker

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• I knew you were a badass," continued Adrian. "But I didn't realize just how much until I saw you dropping guardians out there." "Does that mean you're going to be nicer to me?" I teased. "I'm already nice to you," he said loftily. "Do you know how badly I want a cigarette right now? But no. I manfully suffer through nicotine withdrawal—all for you.

  Richelle Mead

  Nice, Mean, Rose

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• Tall, with skin the color of rich coffee, and dressed all in black, Jim looked like he was carved from a block of solid muscle. Logic said that at some point he must've been a baby and then a child, but looking at him one was almost convinced that some deity touched the ground with its scepter and proclaimed, "There shall be a badass," and Jim sprung into existence, fully formed, complete with clothes, and ready for action.

  Ilona Andrews

  Baby, Children, Block

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• My boyfriend and I are badasses.

  Nora Roberts

  My Boyfriend

  Nora Roberts (2008). “The Pagan Stone”, p.177, Penguin

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• If you want some advice—which I'm sure you don't—you guys should lay off on the magic. Christian still thinks you're moving in on Lissa." "What?" he asked in mock astonishment. "Doesn't he know my heart belongs to you?" "It does not. And no, he's still worried about it, despite what I've told him." "You know, I bet if we started making out right now, it would make him feel better." "If you touch me," I said pleasantly, "I'll provide you with the opportunity to see if you can heal yourself. Then we'd see how badass you really are.

  Richelle Mead

  Christian, Moving, Heart

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.495, Penguin

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