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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
Apparently they're going to bring in Super Asbos. But Asbos already sound too cool. Teenagers see them as a badge of honour. They should call them Gaybos or Bender Badges. -- Frankie Boyle
The hats are tough. I've got a weird head, so believe me, there were a lot of hats. Penny [Rose], our costume designer, who I knew from other jobs said, "Badge, that looks terrible on you. Hold on. No, we can't do that one." -- James Badge Dale
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. -- William Shakespeare
People say I'm difficult and sometimes that's a badge of honour. -- Bill Murray
The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love. -- Billy Graham
There's something about having a badge that just makes you feel so official. -- Gloria Reuben
Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero. -- David D. Burns
The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness. -- Marcus Garvey
Birthdays are a reward for having shown up 365 days in a row. It's like getting a badge for attendance. -- Gina Barreca
Movie stars today are as greedy for additional kids as bankers are for bonuses. It's the new badge of authenticity. -- Tina Brown
Muhammad Ali is a true hero, and the fact there's something wrong with him is his badge of valour. He's a great man. -- George Foreman
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
Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson. -- Nancy Gibbs
As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off. -- David Mitchell
This is the sheriff you're talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to stop me from cracking down on illegal immigration as long as the laws are there. -- Joe Arpaio
Dirt used to be a badge of honor. Dirt used to look like work. But we've scrubbed the dirt off the face of work, and consequently we've created this suspicion of anything that's too dirty. -- Mike Rowe
A heck of a lot more accountability comes from individuals or the church doing it than the government, that signs off on helping people at 5 o'clock, because it comes from the heart, not from a badge or a mandate. -- Doug LaMalfa
My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the logical deduction that they operate the same way; I treated my faith like earning a merit badge, and everything about Christianity was about earning merit badges. -- Max Lucado
We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item. -- Annie Lennox
I don't want to be a part of the demographics. I want to be an individual. I wear each of my films as a badge of pride. That's why I cherish all my bad reviews. If the critics start liking my movies, then I'm in deep trouble. -- John Carpenter
The most important thing my grandfather taught me was that the most noble way to use your skills, intellect and energy is to defend the marginalized against those with the greatest power - and that the resulting animosity from those in power is a badge of honor. -- Glenn Greenwald
A good game gives us meaningful accomplishment - clear achievement that we don't necessarily get from real life. In a game, you've beaten level four, the boss monster is dead, you have a badge, and now you have a super laser sword. Real life isn't like that, right? -- Jesse Schell
The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor's badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully. -- Deepak Chopra
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
There are some designers who flash and burn - Courreges is an example of that. But he still marked fashion history. And I don't think that longevity is always a badge of honor. Modern brand management means that we are always celebrating birthdays, when what is exciting about fashion is innovation, not repetition. -- Suzy Menkes
I feel like when you have an unauthorized police badge and something that looks like it could be a concealed weapon in the small of your back that when you, someone crosses you, pisses you off, road rage, I think just the slight badge and the little moving away of the jacket and not losing eye contact does amazing things. -- Sandra Bullock
I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton. -- Ayelet Waldman
My family is Chilean, and I was born there. By the time I was four, we were living in San Antonio, Texas, and I just remember picking a blue bonnet and getting yelled at by some guy with a sheriff hat and a badge. I was traumatized. He told me it was the state flower, and I wasn't supposed to be messin' with it. -- Pedro Pascal
I'm a star: SHERIFF BADGE. -- Nicki Minaj
The badge of honesty is simplicity. -- Novalis
Stress is not...a badge of courage -- Kris Carr
Lipstick is the red badge of courage. -- Man Ray
Vibrato is the badge of tonal maturity. -- Gerald Fischbach
Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. -- William Shakespeare
Brotherly love is the badge of Christ's disciples. -- Matthew Henry
Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence. -- Thomas Paine
If you are a police dog, where's your badge? -- James Thurber
Congratulations. Your official super-nerd badge is in the mail. -- Rachel Vincent
The opprobrium of assholes is a badge of honor. -- Norman Spinrad
To die without killing is the badge of a satyagrahi. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Every book that is banned is a badge of honor. -- Pramoedya Ananta Toer
The true badge of courage is overcoming the fear of men. -- Lynn G. Robbins
Her name badge read: Hello! My name is DIE, DEMIGOD SCUM! -- Rick Riordan
Brotherly love is still the distinguishing badge of every true Christian. -- Matthew Henry
Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Horror is the badge of humanity, worn proudly, self-righteously, and often falsely. -- Poppy Z. Brite
The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
Doobie always wanted to see the badge. It was shiny, and he was eight. -- Eoin Colfer
The Scoutmaster must be alert to check badge hunting as compared to badge earning. -- Baden Powell de Aquino
I wear glasses myself. As an affectation, as a badge of high intellect and to see with. -- Simon Munnery
Couldn't Lissa have healed that black eye away?" "Its a badge of honor. Makes me seem manly. -- Richelle Mead
You can stick a BMW badge on a dead cat - and people would still buy it. -- Richard Hammond
It's a badge of honor to have your name called by Trump and be made a nickname. -- Rush Limbaugh
Wrinkles ought to be worn as a badge of honour, as a mark of survival if not wisdom. -- Mal Fletcher
Someone out there was about to find that their worst nightmare was a maddened Librarian. With a badge. -- Terry Pratchett
It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge. -- Pete Waterman
I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose... -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not simplify. Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honour. It means you risked failure. -- Charlie Kaufman
Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue. -- Philip Sidney
All have some artificial badge which the world, and themselves among the first, learn to consider as a genuine characteristic. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
People in the countryside carry a sense of dignity. They wear it, don't they? Like a badge? I'm being genuine. -- Khaled Hosseini
My audience knows me, and I wear beautiful clothes as a badge of honor. They remember where I came from. -- Sandra Lee
At the end of it, I'll maybe do a coaching badge but I'm not going to get forced into things. -- Paul Gascoigne
For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city. -- Manuel Moroun
Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness. -- Robert Jordan
This is what I say about the scorn of the media elite: I wear their scorn as a badge of honor. -- Dan Quayle
The 'leisured' wife was a badge of achievement, the ornament to hard work and virtue for families on the way up. -- Hilda Scott
Judge [Samuel] Alito should see criticism as a badge of honor worn by many past and present members of the Court. -- Chuck Grassley
An air of fashion, which is but a badge of slavery ... proves that the soul has not a strong individual character. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand. -- Tallulah Bankhead
My problem with the search for the badge of real is that it trades your goals and your happiness for someone else's. -- Seth Godin
Cersei Lannister: I shall wear this as a badge of honor. Robert Barathon: Wear it in silence or I'll honor you again. -- George R. R. Martin
A miracle is the badge and brand of fraud. ... No intelligent, honest man ever pretended to perform a miracle, and never will. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
I am a Spiritualist, a proud wearer of the Spiritualist badge. Mediums and psychic research have gone on for many, many years. -- Dan Aykroyd
All prejudices, whether of race, sect or sex, class pride and caste distinctions are the belittling inheritance and badge of snobs and prigs. -- Anna Julia Cooper
I've enjoyed the accommodations offered by police departments from Florida to Hawaii. Any time I saw a badge, something in me would snap. -- Grace Slick
Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise. -- Thomas Paine
Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge. -- Nancy Gibbs
I do not seek unpopularity as a badge of honour, but sometimes it is the price of leadership and the cost of conviction. -- Tony Blair
I feel that if you can transcend the color of your skin, with your talent, why carry that as a badge or a label? -- Giancarlo Esposito
The cross is not just a badge to identify us...it is also the compass which gives us our bearings in a disoriented world. -- John Stott
Truth be told, except for foreign policy, Ron Paul's voting record and mine are virtually identical and I wear it as a badge of honor. -- Paul Broun
One bad review doesn't ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all. -- Seth Godin
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
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
The term 'steampunk' itself, now a badge of honor, began as a putdown, a joke. But like 'Big Bang' in cosmology, the diss became the standard. -- Paul Di Filippo
I've actually been in more Elimination Chamber matches than any other human being on the planet. It really has been a badge of honor for me. -- Chris Jericho
Secretive power loathes journalists who do their job: who push back screens, peer behind faÃ§ades, lift rocks. Opprobrium from on high is their badge of honour. -- John Pilger
Do you need someone to make you a paper badge with the word WRITER on it before you can believe you are one? God I hope not. -- Stephen King
I've learned there's nothing wrong with being a little fussy. I used to pride myself on being low-maintenance - I wore it like a badge of honor. -- Becki Newton
I always love it when I hear back from kids who say they discovered Percy Jackson and now wear their learning difference as a badge of honour. -- Rick Riordan
Visualize yourself at your best. Be determined to earn the title of being excellent. From working hard and practicing, one day you will earn its badge of honor. -- Mark F. LaMoure
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
It's not enough simply to wear the badge of corporate responsibility. Business must accept that real change is the only response to climate change and other environmental crises -- Jonathon Porritt
But for us Democrats, Obamacare is a badge of honor. Because no matter who you are, what stage of life you're in, this law is a good thing. -- Kathleen Sebelius
Bloom never pissed me off because there are critics out there, and he's one of them, who take their ignorance about popular culture as a badge of intellectual prowess. -- Stephen King
I don't think anybody else from my generation had federal agents standing at their door with a badge and a gun, saying: 'You are going to answer my questions'. -- Lance Armstrong
So people keep asking me what this badge is for... this badge makes me the sheriff, the sheriff of Emo town, so get your straight irons and eyeliner ready! -- Gerard Way
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
The pushback I get is, 'He's a hedge fund guy.' Full stop. Some places, that can be a badge of honor. In others, it's almost a term of derision. -- Edward Lampert
I hate this guy," Ari muttered, keeping his head down "There's a club," I told him. "The Haters of ter Borcht Club. Have you gotten your badge yet? -- James Patterson
Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I eat breakfast 300 yards from 4000 Cubans, who are trained to kill me, so don't think for one second that you can come down here, flash your badge and make me nervous. -- Jack Nicholson
Kevin Feige said to me: "I don't think we've ever put an actor through quite as much as this, physically and mentally." I'll wear that as a badge of honour. It was endless. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
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
It is utterly exhausting being Black in America - physically, mentally, and emotionally. While many minority groups and women feel similar stress, there is no respite or escape from your badge of color. -- Marian Wright Edelman
A Pennsylvania woman convicted for shoplifting was sentenced to wear a badge that reads "Convicted Shoplifter." However, her lawyers hope to plea bargain down to a bumper sticker reading "I'd Rather Be Stealing!. -- Jimmy Fallon
Complainin' to my lawyer how this rookie tried to frisk me... Jealous of my jeep, I gave his badge to the chief, And got his ass directin' traffic in the heat for a week. -- RZA
The stigma of the prostitute is the badge of her identity. That is why the client goes to her. If he wanted someone without a stigma, he'd go and screw the lady next door. -- Camille Paglia
Ellen had long ago stopped being embarrassed by temper tantrums. She flipped it and wore it like a badge of honor. A temper tantrum was a sign that a mom said no when it counted. -- Lisa Scottoline

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