Bad Ass Quotes

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Life is to be enjoyed, not endured

I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.

Journalism is just a gun. It’s only got one bullet in it, but if you aim right, that’s all you need. Aim it right, and you can blow a kneecap off the world.

I was a martial artist. So, for me to be able to do all of the fights is a blast. It's so fun. It's like dancing, but more bad-ass. I really enjoy doing it.

Never be afraid to fall apart because it is an opportunity to rebuild yourself the way you wish you had been all along.

When being a stunt double, my job has always a supportive role, which is interesting, really. Part of what I really like about it is making a situation where people can just come out of their shell and be super bad-ass. That's exciting!

Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.

The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

I like fiction that deals with matters that are of burning importance to us in our private lives. And not all short stories are like that. In general, short stories - and maybe this is a little bit off-topic - but I think short stories have this bad association with, like, waiting rooms.

Some banks won’t make it. Other banks are going to make sure that we strengthen. All deposits are going to be safe for ordinary people, but we’re going to have to bring out some of these bad assets.

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.

Being a true bad ass has no weight or gender requirement - just 100% commitment to greatness.

What do you say when someone takes on a really bad ass, murdering sucker for you? There just aren't words for that.

I just want to say we support the troops and we love every one of them. Even if they...I know a lot of my friends that are in the military that they don't agree with...Some of them are total, total liberals or this or that, whatever they are and I just want to say that we love all the troops. We don't care what they believe in, they're defending our country and we love them for that. And they're the biggest bad assses...in the world and we just want to thank you. We hope they enjoy the music and we'll keep pumping it out and just keep staying bad asses!

What, I'm supposed to succumb to your ideal image of what this is? No. I'm gonna stand above that and I'm gonna be who I am and be a rolemodel for these girls.

There's gonna be haters, but don't let them affect you, don't let them take away a part of you.

I would like to be remembered as someone who was not afraid to do what she wanted to do, and as someone who took risks along the way in order to achieve her goals.

I love the John Glenn model... I may call NASA in 25 years or so, and see if they'd like to send me to Mars.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

I decided at 15 that I didn't want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs they don't mean. I decided that I was going to be me to the fullest extent, that my songs were going to reflect relationships I've had, things I've been through, and even the stuff I'm embarrassed about.

Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got.

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.

When you come out the streets. I ain't braggin'. I never sold drugs but I kept a joint on me. I got arrested plenty of times back when I was a juvenile. Not saying I was a bad ass. I was a juvenile coming' out to the city, to do MC conventions that Mike & Dave was doing. I had to hold myself down. Now I put the gat up. I chill. I pay more attention to life.

Instead of looking in the mirror and focusing on your flaws, look in the mirror and appreciate your best features... everyone has them.

The process begins with the individual woman’s acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and that labeling ourselves feminists does not change the fact that we must consciously work to rid ourselves of the legacy of negative socialization.

The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Without (my wife) Laurie, I would never be here right now, I know that. I would either be in a coffin, or stashed away doing a life sentence some place. Or running and hiding some place, if I was still alive. I'm certain I wouldn't be playing music. She's just been perfect for me. And she's a protector also; she protects me from myself, from temptations, and bad associations. She's constantly shielding me from walking the red hot coals of existing as a game.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.

It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

It always seems impossible until its done.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.