Bad Ass Quotes - Page 19

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  Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

  Lance Armstrong

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  "It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life". Book by Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins, May 22, 2000.

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• Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

  Sholom Aleichem

  Life, Wise, Dream

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• Viktor Petrenko and I met at a competition, where I beat him completely accidentally. I felt so embarrassed in front of my idol.

  Evgeni Plushenko

  Idols, Competition, Beats

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• I don't underrate the value of military knowledge, but if men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Military, War, Men

  "A History of Militarism: Romance and Realities of a Profession". Book by Alfred Vagts, p. 27., 1937.

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• Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Giving, Advice, Promise

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1952). “Letters”

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• Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

  Margaret Mead

  Time, Women, Feminist

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in "La Abogada" newsletter, Volume 3, by International Federation of Women Lawyers (p. 5), 1967.

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• I'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing.

  Steve McQueen

  Men, Acting, Not Sure

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.

  Henri Matisse

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  "Artist to Artist : Inspiration and Advice from Visual Artists Past & Present". Book by Clint Brown (p. 62_, 1998.

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• Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Life, Positive, Hope

  Margaret Mitchell (1936). “Gone with the wind”, Avon Books

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• If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

  Abraham Maslow

  Determination, Life And Love, Ocean

  "A History of Psychology: A Global Perspective". Book by Eric Shiraev (p. 431),

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• It always seems impossible until its done.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Peace, Military, War

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, 1513.

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• Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Inspirational, Strong Women, Independent Women

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• Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Beautiful, Creativity

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

  Adolf Loos

  Badass, Men, Tasks

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

  Maya Lin

  Art, Badass, People

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• Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.

  Sam Levenson

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.56, Open Road Media

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• Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

  Stephen King

  Life, Beautiful, Truth

  Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

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• I taught the Constitution for ten years, I believe in the Constitution.

  Trey Gowdy

  Believe, Years, Taught

  "Fournier defends linking ObamaCare to Katrina and Iraq". "The Kelly File" with Megyn Kelly, www.foxnews.com. November 20, 2013.

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• An object should be judged by whether it has a form consistent with its use.

  Bruno Munari

  Badass, Use, Form

  Bruno Munari (1971). “Design as art”, Penguin Books Ltd

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• What do we do with a president who can basically change what Congress passed by attaching a letter saying I don't agree with this part or that part?

  Trey Gowdy

  President, Letters, Congress

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• Your memo is trumping a Congressional statute. You don't have the discretion on whether to follow the law or not.

  Trey Gowdy

  Badass, Law, Memos

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• It's really beneath the office of a member of Congress to say something that outrageous. The fact that she was once the Speaker is mind-numbing, honestly... mind-numbingly stupid.

  Trey Gowdy

  Stupid, Office, Mind

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• I would love the chance to ask follow-up questions of Susan Rice because David Gregory apparently did not avail himself of that opportunity. Greta, I just listened to the clip - I get tougher questions in the Bojangles drive-through than he asked her.

  Trey Gowdy

  Badass, Opportunity, Chance

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• Develop a built-in bullshit detector.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Bullshit, Ass, Built

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