Bad Ass Quotes - Page 20

• But we have to understand why we do what we do, not just do what we do. Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

  Pinball Clemons

  Vision, Action, Nightmare

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• The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism.

  Kevin McCloud

  Badass, Fancy, Architecture

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• Very often the opinion of the clients must be disregarded in their own interest.

  John Mercer Johnson

  Badass, Clients, Opinion

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• Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure.

  Zaha Hadid

  Badass, Thinking, Hands

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• I wish I'd drunk more champagne.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Drunk, Alcohol, Wish

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• Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Badass, Steel, Elements

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• I'm convinced that without bad design, the world would be a far less stimulating place; we would have nothing to marvel over and nothing to be nostalgic about.

  Carrie Fulton Phillips

  Badass, Design, Would Be

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• The desire to reach for the sky runs very deep in the human psyche.

  Cesar Pelli

  Running, Badass, Flying High

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• 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.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Art, Badass, Shadow

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1489, Delphi Classics

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• We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Badass, Cities, Long

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• I'll be in hell before you start breakfast - let her rip!

  Tom Ketchum

  Rip, Breakfast, Hell

  Last words, April 26, 1901.

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• The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the art teachers or because somebody thinks it's not useful. An enlightened society has all of this going on within it. It's part of what distinguishes what it is to be human from other life forms on Earth - that we have culture.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teacher, Art, Thinking

  "Global Ideas from Pluto's Challenger". Converge Magazine, May 21, 2009.

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• After your first job, is anyone asking you what your GPA was? No, they don't care. They ask you: Are you a good leader? Do people follow you? Do you have integrity? Are you innovative? Do you solve problems? Somebody's got to do that homework and redesign the educational system so that it can actually train people to be successful in life.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Jobs, Educational, Integrity

  "Global Ideas from Pluto's Challenger". May 21, 2009.

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• I'm optimistic. I see no longer people accepting fuzzy thinking in the world. The change is not that people aren't still saying under-informed things. The change is that if you're in power and you say something under-informed, there are people out there with a voice who will take you to task for having done so

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Optimistic, Thinking, Voice

  "A Conversation about Communicating Science". "The Science Studio" with Roger Bingham, www.youtube.com. January 20, 2011.

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• When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Men, Tragedy, Tradition

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• Dammit, don't you dare ask God to help me!

  Joan Crawford

  Helping, Famous Last Words, Help Me

  Joan Crawford's last words said to her housekeeper, May 10, 1977.

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• This one doesn't exist. The prettiest girl and the best car don't exist as well.

  Evgeni Plushenko

  Girl, Car, Wells

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• It's everything for me. Without figure skating, I am nothing.

  Evgeni Plushenko

  Skating, Figures, Figure Skating

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• It doesn't matter what kind of result will be in the end. I already win for myself.

  Evgeni Plushenko

  Winning, Matter, Kind

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• If the Olympic champion doesn't know how to jump quad, I don't know. Now it's not figure skating. Now it's dancing.

  Evgeni Plushenko

  Dancing, Champion, Skating

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• Now, when you boys get home, you're gonna see a lot of war protestors. But don't be bitter. Go up to one, shake his hand, and smile. Then wink at his girlfriend, because she knows she's dating a pussy.

  Tommy Franks

  Girlfriend, War, Home

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• You gonna do somethin'? or are you just gonna stand there and bleed?

  Wyatt Earp

  Tombstone, Ass, Western Movie

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• Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.

  Augustus

  Exit, Ass, Wells

  "The Fall of the Roman Empire". Book by Rita J. Markel, January 10, 2007.

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• People who build their own home tend to be very courageous. These people are curious about life. They're thinking about what it means to live in a house, rather than just buying a commodity and making it work.

  Tom Kundig

  Badass, Home, Mean

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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

  Badass, Design Process, Profound

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