Badges Quotes

• We don't need no stinking badges!

  John Belushi

  Needs

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• Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

  William Shakespeare

  Forgiveness, Sweet, Kindness

  William Shakespeare (1816). “The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.193

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• Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them.

  Juliette Gordon Low

  Mean Girls, Sympathy, Achievement

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• We just kind of did our own thing and got made fun of by the popular kids. It was kind of like a badge of honor to be an outcast.

  Mark Hoppus

  Fun, Kids, Honor

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• People say I'm difficult and sometimes that's a badge of honour.

  Bill Murray

  People, Sometimes, Difficult

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• A badge is a symbol that girls have done the thing it stands for often enough, thoroughly enough, and well enough to be prepared to give service in it.

  Juliette Gordon Low

  Girl, Giving, Done

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• I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Purpose, Sovereign

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's Complete Works”

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• The badge of honesty is simplicity.

  Novalis

  Honesty, Simplicity

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• I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Names, Self Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.262, Library of America

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• Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.

  David D. Burns

  Hero, Honor, Suffering

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• Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.

  William Shakespeare

  Patience, Venice, Shylock

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [107]

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• The verdicts today should send the message that within the police department there is no greater betrayal of the badge and of the brotherhood than to ensnare another officer in a web of lies and deceit.

  Loretta Lynch

  Betrayal, Lying, Police

  "New York Jury Convicts Three Officers on Charges Related to Torture of Abner Louima". "World Today" with Jim Moret, www.cnn.com. March 6, 2000.

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• I always thought that the badge a cop has was more like the shield that Captain America has. It's an obvious sign of good and something you'll protect other people with, but it will also protect you.

  Judd Nelson

  America, People, Shields

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

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• The presentation of the Golden Badge of the Movement is the highest honor the Third Reich has to offer.

  Hjalmar Schacht

  Honor, Movement, Golden

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• But despite their heroic acts, the Vietnam Veterans of America continued to struggle to establish a combat badge in honor of these brave pilots and medics.

  Tim Holden

  Struggle, America, Brave

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  The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

  Marcus Garvey

  Greatness, Racism, Black

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• Congratulations. Your official super-nerd badge is in the mail.

  Rachel Vincent

  Congratulations, Nerd, Mail

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• Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Personality, Gentleman

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• I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how.

  Lionel Blue

  Christian, Ghetto, Shame

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• When I did Comic Relief, I did it to be on the show; it's a badge of honor as a comedian to do that show.

  Drew Carey

  Comedian, Honor, Relief

  "Stand-Up Guy". Interview with Nick Gillespie & Steve Kurtz, reason.com. November 1, 1997.

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• It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge.

  Pete Waterman

  Thinking, Guitar, People

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• I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor.

  Michael Scheuer

  Leadership, Senior, Thinking

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• There's nothing like it, but it's not as good as you think it's going to be. . . . I was disappointed because there are records of people finding things that have been there for years. I was hoping for a shirt button, or my club's badge - but not a sausage.

  Billy Connolly

  Thinking, Years, People

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• I am a Spiritualist, a proud wearer of the Spiritualist badge. Mediums and psychic research have gone on for many, many years.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Years, Psychics, Gone

  Psychic News # 4001, April 18, 2009.

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• The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Intellectual, Bait

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.275, Penguin

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