Badass Quotations

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

I am in love with girls that are bad and naughty and badass, and a little selfish, but I like to watch from a respectful distance!

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.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

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

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.

Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win.

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

I never want to be called the funniest Indian female comedian that exists. I feel like I can go head-to-head with the best white, male comedy writers that are out there. Why would I want to self-categorize myself into a smaller group than I'm able to compete in?

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.

I was playing pretty boys and these angelic roles like Nicholas Nickleby and all that stuff. And I was like, 'What am I doing? This isn't who I am, as a man or an artist.' I had to overcome people's belief that I was too pretty to be a badass.

I feel myself becoming the fearless person I have dreamt of being. Have I arrived? No. But I'm constantly evolving and challenging myself to be unafraid to make mistakes.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

I decided at 15 that I didn't want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs they don't mean. I decided that I was going to be me to the fullest extent, that my songs were going to reflect relationships I've had, things I've been through, and even the stuff I'm embarrassed about.

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

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.

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

COULD I PASS A WEEK IN THE INSANE WARD AT BLACKWELL'S ISLAND? I SAID I COULD AND I WOULD. AND I DID.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.

If you're creating anything at all, it's really dangerous to care about what people think.

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

I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.

It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

I love who I am, and I encourage other people to love and embrace who they are. But it definitely wasn't easy - it took me a while.

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.

I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

I love technology, and I don't think it's something that should divide along gender lines.

Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.

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

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

I don't talk trash often, but when I do, I go for the jugular.

You can't move mountains by whispering at them.

My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.'

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven't had that fear.

The only thing I'm afraid of is bees. I don't like bees. I'm allergic to them.

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 ...

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

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

Never order food in excess of your body weight.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

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.

Pressure is a privilege ... it's what you do with it that matters.

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

When I step foot to my locker and change shoes for training, its like turning on a switch. I become a creature. Not a human. I look to tear apart anyone and everyone in my way to hugeness and I don't care how I do it. I can feel my heart start jumping and my body start saying "beat me into the ground like a red-headed step child. I want punishment" I WANT TO BE A FREAK, A FREAK I TELL YOU!!

I know the expression love bloomed is metaphorical, but in my heart in this moment, there is one badass flower, captured in time-lapse photography, going from bud to wild radiant blossom in ten seconds flat.

Wake up - time to die.

I'm glad people think I'm a badass. I'm a rock and roller, and I'm an R&B and a blueswoman. I don't do fairy music, although I love Celtic music and sensitive music. There's a balance between ballads and kick-ass songs.

I have a martial arts background and I'm very athletic. So I think if I can find a film where a female is a badass in it - that would just be amazing. They are sometimes hard to find, but I definitely want to do something like that.

If you're feeling helpless, help someone.

Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.

This is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don't fight the little fight... Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don't whine, and don't be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight.

Only one thing counts in this life - get them to sign on the line that is dotted.

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.

Not unlike the toaster, I control darkness.

I never underestimated myself. And I never saw anything wrong with ambition.

I loved Catwoman's sense of humor. I love how sly she is. I love how she, to use a cat metaphor, walks the fence and you don't know which side she's going to come down on. She's totally independent. And let's face it, she's badass.

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

People always ask me if I wish I were bigger. I tell them no. I always wanted to be a miniature badass.

I could fall in love with a supernatural creature because I think it's hot having super powers and being a little bit of a badass.

There's nothing more badass than being who you are.

I want people to know that there is nothing more badass than being yourself.

I hate to admit it, but we're badass.

Where are the women? The women are here.

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?"

This year women learned that if we aren't at the table, we're on the menu.

I think everyone's afraid of public speaking. There have been times where I've come out of my own show and been like, 'Oh, God, what am I doing?' . . . You have to remind yourself that 'OK, I'm kind of a badass. I can handle it.'

Maybe I was a pirate in my past life. I didn’t kill people, though. I was just a badass

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.

There is only one god and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: “Not today.

That's why when major badasses greet each other in movies, they don't say anything, they just nod. The nod means, 'I' am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass,' but they don't say anything because they're Wolverine and Magneto and it would mess up their vibe to explain.

A pair of werewolves occupied another booth. They were eating raw shanks of lamb and arguing about who would win in a fight: Dumbledore from Harry Potter books or Magnus Bane. "Dumbledore would totally win," said the first one. "He has the badass Killing Curse." The second lycanthrope made a trenchant point. "But Dumbledore isn't real." "I don't think Magnus Bane is real either," scoffed the first. "Have you ever met him?" "This is so weird," said Clary, slinking down in her seat. "Are you listening to them?" "No. It's rude to eavesdrop," said Jace.

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.

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.

You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.

There's not just one trans story. There's not just one trans experience.

We need to be willing to be uncomfortable, to be flawed, to be imperfect, to own our voice, to step into our light, so that we can continue to inspire other people and employ other people, and make room for more and more voices and presence.

Look, I get it. Whether it's school, work, family, we've all got a lot on our minds. People say to me, "I'm just too busy to think about politics." But here's the thing: You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you.

when you stumble, keep faith. And when you're knocked down, get right back up and never listen to anyone who says you can't or shouldn't go on.

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.

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.

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

It's a little dangerous to be a badass.