Damn Good Quotes

• And we've all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Damn, Chosen

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• I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.

  Warren G. Harding

  Political, Presidential, Politics

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• The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.

  Jodi Picoult

  May, Who We Are, Damn

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.

  James Frey

  Attitude, Writing, Needs

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• The best number for a dinner party is two; myself and a damn good head waiter.

  Nubar Gulbenkian

  Party, Food, Two

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• A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no damn good.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Bartender, Theory, Damn

  "The Language of God". Book by Francis Collins, p. 60, 2006.

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• I am quite happy that the Beatles came and went. There is even a sort of glory in not having it go on forever. There is a complete body of work that went from A to Z and it is all pretty damn good stuff. The one thing I am particularly proud of is that nearly every single bit of it has some good message. I feel fortunate when I look back. Life is not easy, but I've been very lucky - and I'm touching wood as I say that.

  Paul McCartney

  Forever, Touching, Goes On

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• I like to say that my mother had a very ordinary life. From the outside it didn't look like there was anything particularly special or wonderful about it, but when you watch somebody hold on to that life with both hands, it makes you think that life must be pretty damn good.

  Anna Quindlen

  Mother, Thinking, Hands

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• A lot of people can be afraid of the masking because people can misrepresent themselves [in the Internet] and they can pose as people they're not. Well, yeah; that's true. That's one side of it. But the other side of it is that it equalizes you and if you happen to be a person who is not equal in the eyes of the greater society that's a damn good thing.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Eye, People, Sides

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• The language we're exchanging, the fillings in our teeth, the pavement on the road outside, everywhere you look, for better or for worse, you're going to see evidence that accepting reality is not a human's tendency, and not what we're good at, and not, in my speculation, what God or Natural Selection hired us to do. We've been hired, by this universe, to dream, to aspire, to make things that weren't real real - and because that involves a lot of failure, we're damn good at doing that, too.

  Dan Harmon

  Dream, Real, Teeth

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• We believe in the wrong things. That's what frustrates me the most. Not the lack of belief, but the belief in the wrong things. You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.

  Rachel Cohn

  Believe, Reading, Meaning Well

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.82, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I'd put a lot of work into playing guitar and was thinking I was pretty damn good. But Hendrix came along and destroyed everyone.

  Brian May

  Thinking, Guitar, Hendrix

  "Their Britannic Majesties Request". Mojo Magazine Interview, www.brianmay.com. August 1999.

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• The perfect gadget would somehow allow me to fly. Isn't that what everybody wants? It would also cook a damn good microwave pizza. So while in flight you had something to eat - an in-flight meal. Where would I go? Well, nowadays, it would probably just take me to work a lot quicker.

  John Krasinski

  Perfect, Meals, Gadgets

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• Deep Purple is a damn good band and we've made a niche in rock 'n' roll history. Maybe not a huge one but enough to be very proud of.

  Jon Lord

  Rocks, Purple, Rock N Roll

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• I'm not a great player, but I'm a damn good one.

  Fuzzy Zoeller

  Player, Damn

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• We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life. We could be sitting in a monastery somewhere in Japan. We could be out sailing. Some of the team could be playing golf. They could be running other companies. And we've all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it. And we think it is.

  Steve Jobs

  Running, Team, Creativity

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• The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Book, Quantum, Chapters

  "The New Quantum Universe". Book by Anthony J. G. Hey, ‎Tony Hey, ‎Patrick Walters, 1987.

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• Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.

  Ray Charles

  Music, Memories, Play

  "Quotes: Ray Charles in His Own Words", www.foxnews.com. June 10, 2004.

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• We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Success, Innovation

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• I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them.

  Zahi Hawass

  Running, Egypt, Media

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• As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to, but I don’t put any trust in it. We never understand each other.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Use, Language, Damn

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• You go out with a girl you used to date, she looks so damn good, and then at a certain point you say, Boy, now I remember. I know why I left!

  Arsenio Hall

  Girl, Boys, Umpires

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• You just have to say, 'It’s pretty damn good. I am right here at the moment and I’m OK with it. I've got other things to think about.'

  Melissa McCarthy

  Thinking, Moments, Damn

  "Melissa McCarthy: ‘I don’t know why I am not thinner’", www.foxnews.com. November 7, 2012.

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• I am The Game and I am that damn good!

  Triple H

  Wrestling, Games, Damn

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• You will look into my eyes and you will know I am The Game and that I am that damn good!

  Triple H

  Eye, Games, Looks

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