Bad Ass Quotes - Page 21

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

  Tadao Ando

  Badass, Design, Naked

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• Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Badass, Architecture, Importance

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• How's this for a headline? 'French fries'.

  James French

  Headlines, Fries, Ass

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• Why not? After all, it belongs to him.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Why Not, Famous Last Words, Dying Last Words

  "Fictional character: Henri Verdoux". "Monsieur Verdoux", 1947.

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• I am not surprised that the president of the United States called this a phony scandal. I'm not surprised Secretary Clinton asked, "What difference does it make?" I'm not even surprised that Jay Carney said Benghazi happened a long time ago. I'm just surprised at how many people bought it.

  Trey Gowdy

  Trust, Usa, Differences

  "Gowdy: Why Does the Media Not Care About Benghazi?". www.realclearpolitics.com. May 18, 2014.

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• Congress is supposed to provide oversight, the voters are supposed to provide oversight. And you [the media] were supposed to provide oversight. That's why you have special liberties and that's why you have special protections.

  Trey Gowdy

  Media, Special, Liberty

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• I'm going to help the committee regardless of any position I have. I will volunteer to be a summer intern.

  Trey Gowdy

  Summer, Badass, Volunteer

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• What is our recourse, Mr. Speaker? What is our remedy?

  Trey Gowdy

  Recourse, Remedy, Speakers

  "Boom: Trey Gowdy Just Roasted Obama To A Crisp On The House Floor And Earned A Standing Ovation". Speech at the House of Representatives, www.westernjournalism.com. August 8, 2014.

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• If a president can change some laws, can he change ALL laws? Can he change election laws? Can he change discrimination laws? Are there any laws, under your theory, that he actually HAS to enforce?

  Trey Gowdy

  Law, President, Election

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• You know, in the oath that brand-new citizens take, it contains six different references to 'the law.' If it's good enough for us to ask brand-new citizens to affirm their devotion to the law, is it too much to ask that the president do the same?

  Trey Gowdy

  Law, President, Different

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• Members of Congress are incredibly blessed and fortune to have the jobs that we have. Nobody makes us run. Every two years we offer for public office, and if you don't want to do it then don't run. But the notion that you can make $174,000 in this country and be underpaid is laughable.

  Trey Gowdy

  Running, Country, Jobs

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• Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.

  Chris Bangle

  Badass, Thinking, Design

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• The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, Powerful, Badass

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• One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

  Renzo Piano

  Badass, Architecture, Starting

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• I am simply submerged in work from five in the morning to eleven at night; almost need a few days off to escape a breakdown!

  Richard Neutra

  Morning, Badass, Night

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• With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans who have ever been born. Yet many people continue to assert that it is we who are in charge of the world

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  People, Bacteria, One Line

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• In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose.

  Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

  Badass, Should Have, Details

  Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1853). “The true principles of pointed or Christian architecture: set forth in two lectures delivered at St. Marie's, Oscott”, p.9

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  Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.

  James Mattis

  Marine Corps, Sniping, Mad Dogs

  "'Fiasco'". armedforcesjournal.com. August 01, 2006.

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• The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made.

  Louis Kahn

  Badass, Doe, Rooms

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• I understand that, today, some developers are asking architects to design eye-catching, iconic buildings. Fortunately, I've not had that kind of client so far.

  Fumihiko Maki

  Badass, Eye, Design

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• In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.

  Nancy Banks-Smith

  Badass, Doors, Legs

  Guardian 20 Feb. 1979

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• Nothing in this world is more simple and more cheap than making cities that provide better for people.

  Jan Gehl

  Badass, Simple, Cities

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• To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Meaningful, Badass, Design

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• I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot — but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Badass, Gentleman, Moose

  "The Speech That Saved Teddy Roosevelt’s Life" by Patricia O’Toole, www.smithsonianmag.com. November 2012.

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• The same Constitution that allows her the right, if she wants to, to sit there and say nothing, allows these groups the right to petition their government for redress.

  Trey Gowdy

  Badass, Government, Groups

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