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• But certainly the laser proved to be what I realized it was going to be. At that moment in my life I was too ignorant in business law to be able to do it right, and if I did it over again probably the same damn thing would happen.

  Gordon Gould

  Law, Ignorant, Able

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• There are bullfighters who do it just for the money-they are worthless [said Hemingway]. The only one who matters is the bullfighter who feels it, so that if he did it for nothing, he would do it just as well. Same holds true for damn near everyone.

  A. E. Hotchner

  Matter, Said, Payment

  A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.141, Da Capo Press

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• I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and that no general proposition is worth a damn.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Men, Ends, Chiefs

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• There's always a lot happening. I mean, that's the thing about politics: it's just one damn thing after another!

  Tony Abbott

  Mean, Happenings, Just One

  "Insiders" with Barrie Cassidy, www.abc.net.au. August 20, 2006.

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• My music teacher was like, "Ester, you need to pay attention in class." I'm like, "No miss lady, 'cause I can sing." I didn't want anybody to change the way I sung. I learned by gospel CDs and by watching my momma sing; I didn't need this teacher to tell me. I wish I had, because then I would have learned how to play the damn piano or something. I would have a couple of more things under my belt if I wasn't so hard-headed.

  Ester Dean

  Teacher, Couple, Play

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The fear that the universe is not what you assume it to be is very basic, especially when you know damn well it isn't what you assume it to be.

  John C. Lilly

  Assuming, Wells, Knows

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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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• Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring.

  John Dryden

  Flesh, Red, Way

  John Dryden (1755). “The Duke of Guise. A tragedy. Acted by their Majesties Servants. Written by Mr. Dryden, and Mr. Lee”, p.267

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• With faint praises one another damn.

  William Wycherley

  Praise

  The Plain Dealer prologue (1677) See Pope 32

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• Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player.

  George Farquhar

  Player, Wicked, Genius

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• The poor taxpayer may wipe his shoes on a $3 doormat when he goes home, but not the Navy. It is, damn the cost, full feet ahead on a doormat you would be ashamed to get muddy.

  William Proxmire

  Home, Shoes, Feet

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• Chips with every damn thing. You breed babies and you eat chips with everything.

  Arnold Wesker

  Baby, Chips, Fish And Chips

  'Chips with Everything' (1962) act 1, sc. 2

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• Walking on camera is damn hard. It's a Jewish problem. The rangy stride across the blasted moor is not really a Jewish thing.

  Simon Schama

  Cameras, Problem, Moors

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• Look, I don't know whether God exists. I don't know that. And I tell you one thing, I am not frightened of my beliefs. If there is a God who is threatening me with damnation because I don't believe in Him, so be it. I've lived my life in conscience, and I will suffer damnation willingly in conscience against a tyrannical God who would damn me because, on the basis of the intelligence He gave me, I have come to a conclusion doubting His existence, and I will continue to be a skeptic all of my life.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Believe, If There Is A God, Doubt

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• Sometimes I wake up at night and go, 'Oh, damn! Here we go again! What were they thinking? They gave me this role; don't they know I'm faking it?

  Renee Zellweger

  Thinking, Night, Insecurity

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• Damn inflation, full speed ahead,' Greenspan has said in both action and word. I think an investor should believe him and invest accordingly.

  Bill Gross

  Believe, Thinking, Action

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• I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and God damn it - died in a hotel room.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Dying, Rooms, Famous Last Words

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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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• Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don't make the mistake of thinking that the... cosmos... gives a damn one way or the the other about the especial wants and ultimate welfare of mosquitoes, rats, lice, dogs, men, horses, pterodactyls, trees, fungi, dodos, or other forms of biological energy.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Dog, Horse, Mistake

  Letter to James F. Morton (1929), quoted in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Joshi, p. 483,

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• 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, Chosen, Our Lives

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• A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.

  Sam Rayburn

  Independent, Hockey, Boys

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• These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.

  Dylan Thomas

  Men, Umpires, Confusion

  Collected Poems introduction (1953)

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• We love kitties, gawd bless their little whiskers, and we don't give a damn whether they or we are superior or inferior! They're confounded pretty, and that's all we know and all we need to know!

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Giving, Needs, Littles

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• If what you seek is freedom, the only person who can teach you anything, the only person who can help you is someone who's already done it, who knows the way. No one else can do a damn thing for you but slow you down.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Done, Way

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• If I don't drive around the park, I'm pretty sure to make my mark. If I'm in bed each night by ten, I may get back my looks again. If I abstain from fun and such, I'll probably amount to much; But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.

  Dorothy Parker

  Fun, Humorous, Night

  Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

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