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• 99% of my life I was lied to. I just found out my mom does more dope than I do(Damn!). I told her I'd grow up to be a famous rapper, make a record about doing drugs and name it after her (-Oh, thank you!).

  Eminem

  Mom, Growing Up, Dope

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• Damn you!" Dagenham raged, "Don't you realize that you can't trust people? They don't know enough for their own good." "Then let them learn or die. We're all in this together. Let's live or die together.

  Alfred Bester

  Damn You, People, Together

  Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”

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• I went to sleep with the hope that made America famous. I had the kind of a dream that maybe they're still trying to teach in school. Of the America that made America famous...and Of the people who just might understand That how together yes we can Create a country better than The one we have made of this land, We have a choice to make each man who dares to dream, reaching out his hand A prophet or just a crazy God damn Dreamer of a fool

  Harry Chapin

  Dream, Country, Crazy

  Song: What Made America Famous?, 1974

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• It is not the government's purpose to make a profit the way a company does, because a company doesn't have to give a damn about the unemployed poor or provide services that are non-commercial by definition.

  Jean Chretien

  Government, Giving, Doe

  "Straight From The Heart". Book by Jean Chretien, Chapter Five: A Balancing Act (p. 111-112), 1985.

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• I don't think I'm very much like anyone else, really. I'm sure there are aspects of other actors that I share, but I don't see anybody else and go, "Damn, they stole my thing." I'm me, and I like that there are people who have an appreciation for that.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Appreciation, Thinking, People

  "From A to Zooey". The Boston Globe, February 23, 2003.

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• I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.

  Bobby Fischer

  Book, Firsts, Stolen

  Radio Interview, www.geocities.jp. January 27, 2002.

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• I don't give a damn, laddie. Until the actual moment, when they cut me down, I shall still be looking to win. And the gods of war are fickle at best.

  David Gemmell

  War, Cutting, Winning

  David Gemmell (2011). “Legend”, p.65, Hachette UK

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• Bow to nothing, son. I make mistakes as well as any man. If you think me wrong, be so good as to damn well say so.

  David Gemmell

  Mistake, Son, Men

  David Gemmell (2011). “Legend”, p.81, Hachette UK

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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, Novel

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I can say that American men and women in the Military are damn impressive.

  Henry Rollins

  Military, Men, Impressive

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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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, Jew

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

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• If you’re too stupid to understand that a philosophy that favors a federally structured republic, with numerous restraints on the scope and power of government to interfere with individual rights or the free market, is a lot different from an ethnic-nationalist, atheistic, and socialist program of genocide and international aggression, you should use this rule of thumb: If someone isn’t advocating the murder of millions of people in gas chambers and a global Reich for the White Man you shouldn’t assume he’s a Nazi and you should know it’s pretty damn evil to call him one.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Stupid, Philosophy, Men

  "Springtime For Slanderers" by Jonah Goldberg, www.nationalreview.com. January 5, 2001.

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• Vampires can live a very long time, theoretically forever, which means their idea of getting down to business can be damn leisurely.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Mean, Ideas, Long

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Obsidian Butterfly: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.201, Penguin

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• Life isn't like coursework, baby. It's one damn essay crisis after another.

  Boris Johnson

  Baby, Crisis, Essays

  "Exams work because they're scary". Daily Telegraph, May 12, 2005.

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• I'm an extremely private dude and all this is happening so damn quick. I really haven't had any time to rationalize it. But it's nothing that I'm going to let freak me out or take control of me or my thoughts or my real life.

  Heath Ledger

  Real, Freak, Take Control

  The Times (London), July 1, 2000.

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• You like the way I dress The way I wear my hair Show me off to all your friends Baby, I don't care Just as long as you tell them who I am Tell them I'm the one that made you give a damn

  Jennifer Lopez

  Baby, Hair, Who I Am

  Song: I'm Real

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• Half full, half empty, what the hell difference does it make? If there's something in the damn glass, drink it.

  Nora Roberts

  Glasses, Differences, Doe

  Nora Roberts (2006). “Angels Fall”, p.118, Penguin

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• Thanks to guys like Boss Tweed, famous for saying, 'I don't give a damn who does the voting, as long as I do the nominating,' there hasn't been an honest election in the USA since sometime around the War Between the States.

  L. Neil Smith

  War, Usa, Long

  "Libertarians: The Connies Speak Out (Part Two)". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. October 02, 2005.

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• Yinzer: DAMN!! I wish I had your balls! Tucker:"I wish you had a breath mint, but I guess we don't always get what we wish for.

  Tucker Max

  Wish, Balls, Mint

  Tucker Max (2011). “Assholes Finish First”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• Some people understand the charity of our Lord and are saved by it; others, relying on this mercy and kindness, continue in their sins, thinking that it may be theirs whenever they wish. But this is not so, for then they are too late and are taken in their sins before they expect it, and so damn themselves.

  Walter Hilton

  Kindness, Taken, Thinking

  Walter Hilton (1957). “The Ladder of Perfection”

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• I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin -- a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it.

  Craig Johnson

  Poetry, Littles, Spirituality

  Craig Johnson (2004). “The Cold Dish: A Longmire Mystery”, p.277, Penguin

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• Las Vegas is perhaps the most color-blind, class-free place in America. As long as your cash or credit line holds out, no one gives a damn about your race, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, address, family lineage, voter registration or even your criminal arrest record. Money is the great leveler.

  Marc Cooper

  Color, Class, America

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• What actually happened was that Rolling Stone paid me fifteen hundred dollars for the use of all the drawings - about twenty four of them - and then offered to buy the originals from me, which my agent urged 'was a good move!'. He sold the whole damn treasure trove to Jann Wenner for the princely sum of sixty dollars per drawing. I rue the day I let him convince me.

  Ralph Steadman

  Moving, Drawing, Twenties

  "The Joke's Over". Book by Ralph Steadman, 2006.

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• The fact that ACPI was designed by a group of monkeys high on LSD, and is some of the worst designs in the industry obviously makes running it at any point pretty damn ugly.

  Linus Torvalds

  Running, Design, Groups

  Linux-kernel mailing list, July 31, 2005.

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• And I don't give a damn about a greenback dollarSpend it fast as I can for a wailin' song and a good guitarThe only things that I understand, oh yeah.

  Hoyt Axton

  Song, Giving, Yeah

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