Damn Quotes - Page 2

• It sometimes happens that pleasure blows anywhere it damn well chooses.

  Louis Aragon

  Blow, Sometimes, Pleasure

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• I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of windburn...but the troops were dazzled!

  James Goldman

  Troops, Maids, Halfway

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• People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Life, Fear, Ignorance

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.637, Penguin

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• Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking.

  Jim Butcher

  Real, Guy, Warning

  Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.359, Penguin

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• You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life - the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.

  Doris Lessing

  Writing, Important, Care

  Doris May Lessing (1996). “Putting questions differently: interviews with Doris Lessing, 1964-1994”

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• If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don't deserve to win.

  Fred Hampton

  Struggle, Winning, Dare

  YouTube Channel "jerbo414"/"Fred Hampton Speech: 'Why don't you die for the people'", www.youtube.com. August 28, 2010.

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• Never miss an opportunity to keep your damn mouth shut.

  Duff McKagan

  Opportunity, Missing, Mouths

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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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• Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.

  Edith Piaf

  Law, People, Giving

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• Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.

  Edith Piaf

  Pay, Fool, This Life

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• I would not send my child to a vacation Bible school in 99.9% of the Baptist churches in America. Have some teacher that doesn't even understand anything about the gospel of Jesus Christ, ask those little children, 'How many of you want to go to Heaven?' and damn most of them! Harden their heart to the gospel with some silly profession of faith because it was a silly proclamation of the gospel! It brought no genuine repentance, it brought no faith; it's no different than the Roman church that baptizes every infant that is born.

  Paul Washer

  Teacher, Jesus, Children

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• The oppposite of love is not hate. Hate is just love gone bad. The actual oppposite of love is apathy. When you don't care a damn as to what happens to the other person.

  Amish Tripathi

  Hate, Love Is, Apathy

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• It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.

  Thomas Harris

  Planets, Slippery, Hard

  Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.167, Penguin

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• We make and sell a very, very large number of (hopefully) beautiful, well-made things. Our success is a victory for purity, integrity - for giving a damn.

  Jonathan Ive

  Beautiful, Integrity, Numbers

  "Jonathan Ive designs tomorrow" by John Arlidge, time.com. March 17, 2014.

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• The future is fastidious and punctual. It keeps perfect time and arrives everywhere on the dot. In contrast, its slacker brother the past has no use for clocks or appointments. It comes and goes as it pleases in our memory, camping out wherever the hell it damn well wants to in there. Untrustworthy, prone to exaggeration, biased- you wouldn't lend it ten cents, but it *sure* can be charming and seductive when it feels like it.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Brother, Memories, Past

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• I have a friend — or had a friend, now dead — Abdus Salam, a very devout Muslim, who was trying to bring science into the universities in the Gulf states and he told me that he had a terrible time because, although they were very receptive to technology, they felt that science would be a corrosive to religious belief, and they were worried about it… and damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive of religious belief, and it’s a good thing too.

  Steven Weinberg

  Religious, Technology, Thinking

  "The Atheism Tapes". Documentary, 2004.

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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 Good

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

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• War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad it wasn't them.

  Herman Wouk

  War, People, Watches

  Herman Wouk (1951). “The Caine mutiny: a novel of World War II.”, Garden City

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• The only reason they're out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.

  Billie Holiday

  Fall, Pits, Orchestra

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• I'm a relatively ugly character who's done pretty damn well in film.

  Kevin Spacey

  Character, Done, Ugly

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• I wouldn't give a tinker's damn for a man who isn't sometimes afraid. Fear's the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.

  Daniel Boone

  Fear, Men, Giving

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• The concept of paying one-hundred-and-something times earnings for any company for me is just anathema. Having said that, at the end of the day, your job is to buy what goes up and to sell what goes down so really who gives a damn about PE's?

  Paul Tudor Jones

  Jobs, Giving, The End Of The Day

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• First time I saw an alligator gar I damn near threw up. They ain't natural anything get that big. It's ten feet long and three feet at the girth. Not one of God's creations like you and meSome say they ain't afraid of alligator gar fish. Bullshit. You look at that thing. It's big and mean. Swallow both of us. Them people say they ain't afraid tellin' lies.

  Bukka White

  Lying, Mean, Feet

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• Being Negative and Lazy is a disease that leads to pain, hardship, depression, poor health and failure. Be pro active, and give a damn to achieve success!

  Phil Heath

  Pain, Giving, Lazy

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• I give a damn if any fan recalls my legacy, I'm trying to live life in the sight of GOD's memory.

  Mos Def

  Memories, Live Life, Sight

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