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• There are people who are convinced supernatural forces are at work, but I've no idea. I suspect 'possession' might be a psychological thing, like schizophrenia. We all think we know things, but we don't know a damn thing. Whether God exists, why we're here... Nobody really knows any of it.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Thinking, Ideas, Supernatural Forces

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• I truly love [Andy Serkis]. He's an amazing guy. Yeah, I think that when we really synced up was when he came over to my place, the place I rented in Vancouver, and we had like two bottles of wine, and what a night. What a night. And by the way, I don't remember a damn thing we talked about, but I can tell you it would've been like the greatest conversation if we could've written it down or something, because it was incredible. He's such a bright, amazing guy.

  Woody Harrelson

  Wine, Night, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Whenever I felt tempted to, I don’t know, watch cat videos or bad Netflix TV instead of writing this Brandeis biography, I thought of his stern but kindly visage and buckled down and wrote the damn thing, because there’s so much information out there, and these are such anxious times in democracy, such unreasonable times.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Writing, Cat, Democracy

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• If I were in the President's place, I would not get a chance to resign. I would be lying in a pool of my own blood
  hearing Mrs. Armey, standing over me, saying, 'How do I reload this damn thing?'

  Dick Armey

  Lying, Blood, President

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• I learned from a very young age that no one owes you anything and nobody's gonna give you a damn thing. But you can have anything you want, if you work hard enough for it.

  Branch Warren

  Motivational, Work, Bodybuilding

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• When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it's just one damn thing after another.

  Tom Hanks

  Trying, Stories, Possibility

  "Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks Talk SAVING MR. BANKS, Bringing the Essence of Their Characters to the Screen, and How P.L. Travers Would Have Reacted". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 9, 2013.

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• People are always invoking evolutionary psychology for everything. "Why do men hang around asking women out? Oh, to improve their reproductive success," every damn thing - religion, art - it can all be explained by evolutionary psychology. But in our hearts we know that evolutionary psychology is only sort of accurate, because it really doesn't capture what's most interesting about our lives.

  D. T. Max

  Art, Men, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• They have hyped up HIV into this super-rapist but in reality the damn thing can hardly get an erection.

  Peter Duesberg

  Reality, Hiv, Damn

  "Times of London", May 11, 1992.

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• The Jews talk about "never again."... You cannot say "Never again" to God because when he puts you in the oven, you're in one indeed!... "Never again" don't mean a damn thing when God get ready for you!

  Louis Farrakhan

  Mean, Ovens, Damn

  "People Organized and Working for Economic Rebirth". Louis Farrakhan's Sermon at Madison Square Garden, October 7, 1985.

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• After you've been working fairly intensively on a novel for six months you never want to see the damn thing again.

  Terry Pratchett

  Six Months, Want, Damn

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Struggle, Writing, Typewriters

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• War to me is the stupidest way of settling anything. The whole damn thing goes to pieces.

  Frank Capra

  War, Pieces, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It ain't that you get religion. Religion gets you and then milks you dry. Won't let you drink a little whiskey. Won't let you make no fat-assed girls grin and giggle. Won't let you do a damn thing except work for what you'll get in the hearafter. I live in the here and now.

  Dorothy Allison

  Girl, Dry, Littles

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• When you’re in love you don’t have to do a damn thing. You can just be. You can just stay quiet in the world. You don’t have to move an inch.

  Charles Baxter

  Moving, Love You, World

  Charles Baxter (2009). “The Feast of Love”, p.23, Vintage

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• You know, my problem with most screenwriting is it is a blueprint. It's like they're afraid to write the damn thing. And I'm a writer. That's what I do. I want it to be written. I want it to work on the page first and foremost. So when I'm writing the script, I'm not thinking about the viewer watching the movie. I'm thinking about the reader reading the script.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• I think we love who we love and there’s not a damn thing that can be done about it.

  Susan Donovan

  Thinking, Done, Damn

  Susan Donovan (2015). “The Susan Donovan Collection: The Kept Woman, Knock Me Off My Feet, and He Loves Lucy”, p.856, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• As hard as you try and create narratives about sports, once the ball is in the air, there's not a damn thing you can do about it, it's just very real.

  Ian MacKaye

  Sports, Real, Air

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.

  Earl Campbell

  Football, America, Damn

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• I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it. Then I found that it intensively went into every irrelevancy under the sun - and that it didn't work. People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

  Albert Ellis

  People, Sun, Form

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• Where do people get off saying the Beatles should give $200,000,000 to South America? You know, America has poured billions into places like that. It doesn't mean a damn thing. After they've eaten that meal, then what? It lasts for only a day. After the $200,000,000 is gone, then what? It goes round and round in circles. You can pour money in forever. After Peru, then Harlem, then Britain. There is no one concert. We would have to dedicate the rest of our lives to one world concert tour, and I'm not ready for it. Not in this lifetime, anyway.

  John Lennon

  Music, Mean, Circles

  Playboy Interview, January 1981.

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• Nothing that's good works by itself, you've got to make the damn thing work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Good Work, Damn

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• But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.

  Roberto Bolano

  Running, Art, Lying

  "Last Evenings on Earth". Book by Roberto Bolaño, 2006.

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• I ain't Mary, so ain't a damn thing Poppin'.

  Xzibit

  Rap, Hip Hop, Mary

  Song: Eyes May Shine, Album: At The Speed Of Life

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• 85% of modern music doesn't have a damn thing to do with music. It has to do with looking good. Name me one woman on the top ten right now who isn't absolutely smoking hot. You think that's a coincidence?

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Thinking, Names, Smoking

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• People apparently only read mystery stories of any length. With mysteries, the longer the better, and people will read any damn thing. But the indulgent, 800-page books that were written a hundred years ago are just not going to be written anymore, and people need to get used to that.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Book, Years, People

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