Damn Quotes - Page 24

• Some people think there's a woman to blame, but I know - it's my own damn fault

  Jimmy Buffett

  Thinking, People, Faults

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• Would God give a bird wings and make it a crime to fly? Would he give me brains and make it a crime to think? Any God that would damn one of his children for the expression of his honest thought wouldn't make a decent thief. When I read a book and don't believe it, I ought to say so. I will do so and take the consequences like a man.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, Believe, Book

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1898). “Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters on the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--etc. Etc. Etc”

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• There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Liberty, Libertarian, Basic Human Rights

  "The Liberty Manifesto". Speech delivered for the opening of the Cato Institute's headquarters in Washington, D.C., May 6, 1993.

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• To be laughed at is no great hardship to me. I can delight in scoffs and jeers. Caricatures, lampoons, and slanders are my glory. But that you should turn from your own mercy, this is my sorrow. Spit on me, but, oh, repent! Laugh at me, but, oh, believe in my Master! Make my body as the dirt of the streets, but damn not your own souls!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, Laughing, Soul

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1858). “Sermons of the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, of London”, p.207

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• There are people who've challenged me on that, but I think there still are. Not everybody looses their virginity when they're 12, there are always these girls who are sort of outside the norm, who have only each other to hang with and talk to. Who are what you would call late bloomers; they don't know it now but when they're 25 they're going to be pretty damn interesting.

  Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

  Girl, Thinking, People

  "Naomi Foner and the Importance of Being Earnest". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 22, 2014.

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• Damn, my first cut that I showed to distributors was probably about two hours and 20 minutes, even though my contract said two hours. So, I had to lose 20 minutes. It's incredible that it just keeps happening.

  David Twohy

  Cutting, Two, Firsts

  Source: collider.com

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• Hardest emotion? They're all pretty damn hard; I don't know really if there's one specifically, but I do think, I don't know what's happening or what I'm feeling when I'm actually listening.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Thinking, Feelings, Listening

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• To me Polanski is one of the greats in terms of psychological horror. It's just hard to top him because he's so damn good at it.

  Dylan McDermott

  Horror, Psychological, Term

  Source: collider.com

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• We all know gifs are pronounced "jifs," right? Their creator says so, damn it!

  Bill Walsh

  Creator, Knows

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• All one wants to do is make a small, finished, polished, burnished, beautiful object . . . I mean, that's all one wants to do. One has nothing to say about the world, or society, or morals or politics or anything else. One just wants to get the damn thing done, you know? Kafka had it right when he said that the artist is the man who has nothing to say. It's true. You get the thing done, but you don't actually have anything to communicate, apart from the object itself.

  John Banville

  Beautiful, Mean, Artist

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• I don't want to die. Damn death. Long live life.

  James Joyce

  Live Life, Long, Want

  James Joyce, Jeri Johnson (2008). “Ulysses”, p.549, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Reading, Writing, Easy

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• You have to realize the truth of biologist Julian Huxley's idea that 'Life is just one damn relatedness after another' "So you must have the models, and you must see the relatedness and the effects from the relatedness.

  Charlie Munger

  Ideas, Realizing, Life Is

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• In engineering, people have a big margin of safety. But in the financial world, people don't give a damn about safety. They let it balloon and balloon and balloon. It's aided by false accounting.

  Charlie Munger

  Engineering, People, Safety

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• Where did all these damn Indians come from?

  George Armstrong Custer

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• Everything on the internet is real god damn it!

  Bill Gates

  Real, Internet

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• All women are goddesses, and it's just a matter of letting that goddess-power shine - and if you don't try to be the biggest and baddest damn goddess you can be, you are selling yourself short.

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Shining, Trying, Matter

  Kimora Lee Simmons (2009). “Fabulosity: What It Is & How to Get It”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• (on Katharine Hepburn) She talks at you as though you were a microphone; she lectured the hell out of me on temperance and the evils of drink. She doesn't give a damn how she looks. I don't think she tries to be a character. I think she is one.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Character, Thinking, Evil

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Perhaps it suddenly brought to us the sense of change. Or irresponsibility. But don't forget that, though the people in the twenties seemed like flops, they weren't. Fitzgerald, the rest of them, reckless as they were, drinkers as they were, they worked damn hard and all the time.

  Dorothy Parker

  People, Twenties, Forget

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• A thing is good because it is good, not because it is natural. A thing is bad because it is bad, not because its artificial. It is not a damn iota better to be bitten by a rattlesnake than shot by a gun.

  Tom Robbins

  Gun, Natural, Shots

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.239, Bantam

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• If there is a God who will damn his children forever, I would rather go to hell than to go to heaven and keep the society of such an infamous tyrant.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, If There Is A God, Tyrants

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.217, Library of Alexandria

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• Between men and women, all the time there is tension. I feel it. A woman walks down the street, and I'm going back, and suddenly there is this tension. I just walk down the street, we were just on the way. And she thinks I'm a rapist. And now I feel guilty, even though I'm a damn poor did not.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Men, Thinking, Way

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• Up until now I'd always though RSI meant 'I hate my damn job'.

  Terry Pratchett

  Jobs, Hate, I Hate

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• A 'truth' detached and purified of pleasures of ordinary life is not worth a damn in my view. Every grand theory and noble sentiment ought to be first tested in the kitchen-and then in bed, of course.

  Charles Simic

  Views, Kitchen, Bed

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• I have a cartoon where the guy is pretty much, he's a regular-sized guy, but he's the size of the island. He's saying no man is an island, but I come pretty damn close.

  Robert Mankoff

  Men, Islands, Guy

  "'New Yorker' Cartoon Editor Explores What Makes Us Get It". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 24, 2014.

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