Quotes on Badass

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

We were so young, so in love, and so in debt.

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

Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

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.

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.

Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.

When you're a girl, you have to be everything, You have to be dope at what you do, but you have to be super sweet, and you have to be sexy, and you have to be this and you have to be that and you have to be nice, and you have to - it's like, I can't be all of those things at once. I'm a human being.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

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

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

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it's a process. It's often not cool to be the person who puts themselves out there.

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by outward things On stone or canvas, having in themselves No separate existence. Architecture, Existing in itself, and not in seeming A something it is not, surpasses them As substance shadow.

I'm never going to starve myself for a part. I don't want little girls to be like, 'Oh, I want to look like Katniss, so I'm going to skip dinner.' That's something I was really conscious of during training, when you're trying to get your body to look exactly right. I was trying to get my body to look fit and strong-not thin and underfed.

When it comes to being badass nothing beats this It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

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

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

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.