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• If you're not fascinated by Korea yet, you damn well should be. The most innovative country on earth deserves a hilarious and poignant account on the order of Euny Hong's The Birth of Korean Cool. Her phat beats got Gangnam Style and then some.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Country, Order, Korea

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• I burned my own damn finger pokin' someone else's fire

  Kacey Musgraves

  Fire, Fingers, Burned

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• I once overheard the sweetest old woman behind me on a train tell her adorable old husband as he scoffed down a ham sandwich she had brought along, "If you ever yell at me to "stop bringing a ham sandwich with me every where we go" again? Next time I'm bringing a gun. And I'm blowing your God damn head off."

  Dane Cook

  Husband, Gun, Adorable

  "Dane Cook, Global Flavor". Interview Magazine Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 5, 2009.

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• There are always seasons to a career and perhaps always the grass is often greener, you're often looking at other people's careers going, "Damn, they get all the good roles. Why didn't I read that? Why didn't they ask me to do that?"

  Jude Law

  Careers, People, Roles

  "Jude Law Talks SIDE EFFECTS, GATTACA, EXISTENZ, A.I., SHERLOCK HOLMES 3, His Favorite Comic Books, Future Projects, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 7, 2013.

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• I'm glad to be able to announce that the UK now has it's very own mindless twit. || Either that or he's a damn good satirist.

  Tim Worstall

  Able, Twits, Mindless

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• Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older.

  Maya Angelou

  Growing Up, People, Difficult

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• Public service announcement: In case of a terrorist attack, bottled water and duct tape are not going to do a damn thing. So do what Homeland Security Dir. Tom Ridge does: Get really drunk, and pick up a hooker.

  David Letterman

  Water, Drunk, Doe

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• Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw] the consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all... whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.

  Janis Joplin

  Loving Someone, Silence, How You Feel

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• On a personal note: I have contracted an outstanding case of breast cancer, from which I intend to recover. I don't need get-well cards, but I would like the beloved women readers to do something for me: Go. Get. The. Damn. Mammogram. Done.

  Molly Ivins

  Get Well, Cancer, Needs

  "Ann Richards and Molly Ivins Ain’t Done with Us Yet!" by Linda Milazzo, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 04, 2007.

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• I make pink look pretty damn good.

  Dolph Ziggler

  Looks, Damn Good

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• He said I couldn't do (off the field) what I did when I was 23 or 24, and I paid attention to him. Damn it, I got a trainer and went to spring training in the best shape of my career and in 1985 had the best season I ever had and we won the World Series. Before that, I didn't know how long I was going to play. That talk with Mr. Fogelman was the most inspiring talk I ever had with anyone.

  George Brett

  Spring, Play, Careers

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• Sometimes I surprise my own damn self.

  Barry Bonds

  Self, Sometimes, Surprise

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• I had some great role models along the way. My on-field heroes were the great Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, and Willie Mays. I wanted to be like them on the field, and I am so damn proud to join them in the Hall of Fame.

  Allan Ray

  Hero, Role Models, Roles

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• Because that's what narcissism is all about; looking in the mirror everyday and thinking 'Damn, I'd like to shag myself.'

  Eddie Izzard

  Thinking, Mirrors, Everyday

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• My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis, against the Pittsburgh Pirates. The first pitch I threw was to third baseman Bob Bailey. It was a fastball, low and away. He ripped it for a home run down the left field line. I said, 'Damn, that was a pretty good pitch.

  Steve Carlton

  Running, Home, League

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• I lay and cried, and began to feel again, to admit I was human, vulnerable, sensitive. I began to remember how it had been before; how there was that germ of positive creativeness. Character is fate; and damn, I'd better work on my character. I had been withdrawing into a retreat of numbness: it is so much safer to NOT feel, NOT to let the world touch one.

  Sylvia Plath

  Character, Fate, Numbness

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.64, Anchor

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• The center of life is female - we all come from our mothers. I've always drawn women or female spirits. I feel deeply about this - who gives a damn about some guy on a cross? My mother's creativity was smothered after she married and raised a family, but she was supportive of me - even my father expected me to carry on in her footsteps. I prefer to have no kids but lots of animals.

  Vali Myers

  Mother, Father, Creativity

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• Inconsistency is the bugbear of fools! I wouldn't give a damn for a fellow who couldn't change his mind with a change of conditions.

  John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

  Giving, Consistency, Mind

  "Deadnought: Britain, Germany and the Comiing of the Great War". Book by Robert K. Massie, letter to former Prime Minister Arthur Balfour, 1991.

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• Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Art, Men, Law

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• The dying man doesn't struggle much and he isn't much afraid. As his alkalies give out he succumbs to a blest stupidity. His mindfogs. His will power vanishes. He submits decently. He scarcely gives a damn.

  H. L. Mencken

  Death, Struggle, Men

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.139, Vintage

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• I have a job to do. ... If you think right now I give a damn about presidential politics, then you don't know me.

  Chris Christie

  Jobs, Thinking, Giving

  "Chris Christie Says He ‘Could Care Less’ About Presidential Election" by John Celock, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 30, 2012.

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• I have memories of being in Yale five years ago. It was December and so damn cold that while professing love to my leading lady and singing a Bollywood ditty which went something like this, Kabhie alvida na kehna – my mouth froze itself to death. I say death because as I inched closer to kiss her, mouthing the words kabhi alvida na… my mouth and jaw just locked.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Memories, Kissing, Yale

  "SHAHRUKH KHAN's speech at Yale: Don't take no s**t from anybody!". www.bollywoodlife.com. April 13, 2012.

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• Our system works. Over time, people will live better and better. We have a system that unleashes human potential, and now China has a system that unleashes human potential. We will have interruptions. We overshoot and undershoot sometimes, but your kids and grandkids will live better than you. Over time, we move ahead at a pretty damn rapid rate.

  Warren Buffett

  Moving, Kids, People

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• Diversification is a surrogate - and a damn poor surrogate - for knowledge, elements of control, and priceconsciousness.

  Martin J. Whitman

  Investing, Elements, Poor

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• By and large, life will give you what you deserve and it doesn't give a damn what you like. So it is up to you to take full responsibility to connect what you want with what you need to do to get it, and then to do those things.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Responsibility, Giving

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