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Charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.
Am I going to have to carry you? If so, it would complete my badass knight-in-shining-armor act with you today.
'VERY WELL,' I SAID ANGRILY, 'START THE MAN, AND I'LL START THE SAME DAY FOR SOME OTHER NEWSPAPER AND BEAT HIM.'
I'm a badass. I really am. When you see me hanging with Snoop Doggy Dogg, I am perfectly at home and comfortable.
When it comes to being badass nothing beats this It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
Your memo is trumping a Congressional statute. You don't have the discretion on whether to follow the law or not.
In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people, my friend - those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.
I've been on the floor and I've been heartbroken. I didn't know how I was going to stand up. But I just gave it time.
There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.
As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.
Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.
The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.
I'm a kind person, I'm kind to everyone, but if you are unkind to me, then kindness is not what you'll remember me for
Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.
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!
Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
Believe it or not, when we were first married, our combined monthly student loan bills were actually higher than our mortgage.
It's kind of cool—and it makes me feel like a badass. I get more girls than my boyfriend. They always tweet me about my booty.
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.
You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.
You talking to me? You talking to me? Then who the hell else are you talking to - you talking to me? Well, I'm the only one here.
I am in love with girls that are bad and naughty and badass, and a little selfish, but I like to watch from a respectful distance!
I love who I am, and I encourage other people to love and embrace who they are. But it definitely wasn't easy - it took me a while.
I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.
To experience the good you have to have seen the bad; plus it makes you appreciate blessings more. Tough times taught me to be a fighter.
Simply, with a Republican Congress sitting shotgun, Mitt Romney will put the middle class on the roof and take us for a long, painful ride.
when you stumble, keep faith. And when you're knocked down, get right back up and never listen to anyone who says you can't or shouldn't go on.
A profound design process eventually makes the patron, the architect, and every occasional visitor in the building a slightly better human being.
Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.
You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.
People are always like, Why did you and husband Carey Hart get back together? Well, we weren't done. And now we have Willow, so we'll never be done.
Architecture never derived its force from stability of culture, but rather from the expression of those moments when that sense of stability slipped.
There is always a price to pay for badassery. Neo was a badass in the Matrix and the Matrix Reloaded, but the price he had to pay was The Matrix Revolutions.
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.
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.
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.
Dimitri was on a first name basis with one of the most badass guardians around. Of course, Dimitri was pretty badass himself, so I shouldn’t have been surprised.
My job has always been to not only make my character look like a badass but to also make the actor I am fighting opposite to be the character they need to be too.
Have a go-to pump up song. Mine is Shakira's 'Waka Waka' from the 2010 World Cup (don't judge). Play it only when you're ready to turn into your most badass self.
Who's Myrnin?" Claire controlled an urge to roll her eyes. "Badass crazy vampire scientist who's my boss." "You realize no part of that sentence made sense, right?