Quotes on Badass

I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.

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

When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

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

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

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.

Maybe 23 cents doesn't sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account, Cayman Island Investments and an IRA worth tens of millions of dollars. But Governor Romney, when we lose 23 cents every hour, every day, every paycheck, every job, over our entire lives, what we lose can't just be measured in dollars.

No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people. People have hearts, they have kids, they get jobs, they get sick, they cry, they dance. They live, they love, and they die. And that matters. That matters because we don't run this country for corporations, we run it for people.

I wouldn't say I'm a ball hog. I'm a shooter.

I played T-Mac. I cooked him. Roasted him. Wasn't even close.

Sweat more during peace: bleed less during war

Truth and clarity are complementary.

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

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

If a man says he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying or is a Gurkha.

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.

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.

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