Damn Quotes - Page 23

• I know that I may not always get a hit or may not always catch the ball, but I'm going to damn sure try.

  Cliff Floyd

  Trying, Balls, May

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• Only I could drink a thousand drinks and never forget a damn thing. I would just remember every detail of the thousand drinks down to the shapes of the ice cubes.

  David Baldacci

  Ice, Details, Shapes

  David Baldacci (2015). “Memory Man”, p.16, Pan Macmillan

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• You know, a lot of girls go out with me just to further their careers...damn anthropologists.

  Emo Philips

  Girl, Careers, Knows

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• So when it comes down to it, a calorie is a calorie is a calorie: There is only one moral of the story: burn as many damn calories as possible whenever you work out.

  Jillian Michaels

  Work Out, Stories, Moral Of The Story

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• My students sometimes ask: what is a fundamentalist? I give them a very simple definition. A fundamentalist is no fun, too much damn, and not enough mental.

  Bart D. Ehrman

  Fun, Simple, Giving

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• You can’t trust those damn Catholics.

  Gordon Gee

  Catholic

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• Thinking like ethical people, dressing like ethical people, decorating our homes like ethical people makes not a damn of difference unless we also behave like ethical people.

  George Monbiot

  Home, Thinking, Differences

  George Monbiot (2007). “Heat: how to stop the planet from burning”, South End Pr

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• It hit the damn papers that I was being chased through the woods with dogs and choppers. I mean, who the hell are we after here, John Dillinger? For Chrissakes, I'm just a lowly guitar player.

  Richard Betts

  Dog, Mean, Player

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• So what if my face is falling apart? I don't give a damn. Anyway, it gives me character. Everyone thinks that they can stay pretty forever but some come out of Beverly Hills surgeries looking scary to me.

  Robert Redford

  Fall, Character, Thinking

  "Redford slams 'sick Hollywood'" by Patrick Sawer, www.standard.co.uk. January 08, 2002.

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• Four. That's what I want you to remember. If you don't get your idea across in the first four minutes, you won't do it. Four sentences to a paragraph. Four letters to a word. The most important words in the English language all have four letters. Home. Love. Food. Land. Peace. . .I know peace has five letters, but any damn fool knows it should have four.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Home, Should Have, Land

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• This is what I will forever hold against men in general: that they have carefully selected out and inoculated intelligent women with a sense of specialness: you're not like other girls. Damn, for a woman, you sure are bright as hell!

  Dorothy Uhnak

  Girl, Intelligent, Men

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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 Things

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• You forget about it, after awhile. You forget that you even have it on. It becomes part of you. You get used to it, even the teeth and the contacts, which bothered the hell out of me. It ends up being something that is part of the role, and part of the thing that you're doing. After awhile, it just feels pretty damn awesome.

  Michael Rooker

  Teeth, Roles, Forget

  Source: collider.com

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• I used to throw mad parties because I had all this damn money! Some of them got out of hand. People wanted to fight, steal necklaces off of people's necks. A little weird. I had to have armed security at my house. I was young, 21, 22.

  DJ Quik

  Party, Fighting, Hands

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It's so damn hard to write a great historical mystery based on fact. It's not for lack of trying.

  Jon Turteltaub

  Writing, Historical, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• It's no disgrace to be old. But damn if it isn't inconvenient.

  Moms Mabley

  Disgrace, Ifs, Inconvenient

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• Most people, when they reach a certain age, let down and talk about what they used to do. Well, who gives a damn about what you used to do? It's what you're doing now.

  Jack LaLanne

  People, Giving, Age

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• Success is always somebody else's opinion of you; but it doesn't amount to a damn compared to your own opinion of yourself.

  Jack Lemmon

  Opinion, Amount

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• Twenty-six states have passed renewable portfolio standards, which simply says somewhere between 15% and 30% of their electricity will come from renewables by such-and-such a year. In Washington, D.C., they haven't done a damn thing.

  Brian Schweitzer

  Years, Twenties, Done

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• If God cares about our puny species, then disasters prove that he is not all-powerful; and if he is all-powerful, then clearly he doesn't give a damn.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Powerful, Giving, Care

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2008). “Going to Extremes: Notes from a Divided Nation”, Granta Books (UK)

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• And if you're going to criticize me for not finishing the whole thing and tying it up in a bow for you, why, do us both a favor and write your own damn book, only have the decency to call it a romance instead of a history, because history's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied. It ain't a pretty package, but then it's not your birthday that I know of so I'm under no obligation to give you a gift.

  Orson Scott Card

  Book, Writing, Giving

  Orson Scott Card (1996). “Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.8, Macmillan

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• Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want. Anything at all .... as long as you tell the truth.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Long, Answers

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• I used to sing like Nat King Cole. I mean he was the guy when I was comin' up, and you know, man, people used to say of me, "Damn, he sure do sound like Nat King Cole." But there was a day, and luckily for me it was early, when I woke up and asked myself, "Well, when are the ask me to sing because I sound like me?" So my advice is, never do anything that you don't like.

  Ray Charles

  Kings, Mean, Men

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• The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.

  Quentin Crisp

  Gay, Disco Music, Century

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• Psychotherapy is the theory that the patient will probably get well anyhow and is certainly a damn fool.

  H. L. Mencken

  Get Well, Fool, Patient

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