I’m a pretty gentle person so I don’t really have much of a thing of being a badass.
It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.
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.
There's nothing more badass than being who you are.
The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made.
I realized that very young - that a life where you don't live to your full potential, or you don't experiment, or you're afraid, or you hesitate, or there are things you know you should do but you just don't get around to them, is a life that I'd be miserable living, and the only way to feel that I'm on the right path is just to be true to myself, whatever that may be, and that tends to come with stepping out of something that's maybe safe or traditional.
ENERGY RIGHTLY APPLIED CAN ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING.
I can be a badass DJ when I want, but I am also an insufferable music snob.
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
After India's victory in the war he was asked what would have happened if he had opted to be with the Pakistan Army at the time of partition in 1947, he quipped, then I guess Pakistan would have won.
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.
The president already has a Nobel Prize for peace. I think he's shooting for one in fiction.
The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.
The desire to reach for the sky runs very deep in the human psyche.
Wake up - time to die.
I wanted to start a website for teenaged girls that was not kind of this one-dimensional strong character empowerment thing, because one thing that can be very alienating about a misconception of feminism is that girls then think that to be feminists, they have to live up to being perfectly consistent in their beliefs, never being insecure, never having doubts, having all the answers. . . and this is not true and actually, recognizing all the contradictions I was feeling became easier once I realized that feminism was not a rule book but a discussion, a conversation, a process.
I wonder whether those of our political masters who have been put in charge of the defence of the country can distinguish a mortar from a motor; a gun from a howitzer; a guerrilla from a gorilla, although a great many resemble the latter.
If you come back in here, I'm gonna hit you with so many rights, you're gonna beg for a left.
I've known for a long time that they're a bunch of idiots.
A what? (Fang) Badass demon with a superiority complex who picks his teeth with bones of infants. Let’s just keep it simple and say he’s a demon I want out of the human realm. ASAP. (Thorn)