Bad Ass Quotes - Page 3

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

The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other words, to separate the microclimate from the macro space outside. This in itself is a sacred act. Architecture in itself conveys this idea of limiting space. It's a limit between the finite and the infinite. From this point of view, all architecture is sacred.

If wars can be started by lies, they can be stopped by truth.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

It's gonna be okay, no matter how hard your rock bottom is, you can rise above it and you can come back.

At the end of the day it doesn't matter what anybody else thinks as long as you're happy.

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.

Develop a built-in bullshit detector.

Charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

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

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

Your imperfections make you beautiful, they make you who you are.

It's really hard to get stories made that are about women. Not just women being obsessed with men, or supporting men. And it's really hard to get men to be a part of films that are about women in a leading role. I'm really interested in how we can adjust that.

I used to have a wild night with three women until 5am., but I am getting older. In the Olympic village here, I will live it up with five women, but only until 3am.

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

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can't are both right. Which one are you?

Somtimes I regret [that debut album was titled "Bad Azz" ], because people take it the wrong way. Everybody got a bad ways, and I'm a 'Bad Ass'... whenever I'm not good, so that's what I'm talkin' about.

Now, Bad Ass, you run your mouth about Summerslam. Well, here's the situation. The Rock says this, if the Rock hits you he'll kill you. If he misses, the wind behind the punch will give you pneumonia and you'll die anyway, so the choice is yours, jabroni.

Go ahead and believe that no one shines brighter than you. Become amazing, and be happy.

Bad as I wanna be. She aint bad, she a sad little wannabe.

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

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

Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.