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• Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.

  Maya Angelou

  Reading, Writing, Giving

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Apr 12, 2013

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• I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical.

  Christian Bale

  Mean, Ideas, Numbers

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• A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.

  Christian Bale

  Teenager, People, Giving

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• I don't give a damn about Hollywood.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Giving, Hollywood, Don't Give A Damn

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

  Thomas Beecham

  Funny, Music, Two

  In Harold Atkins and Archie Newman Beecham Stories (1978) p. 27

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• When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Song, Umpires, Play

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• Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.

  Art Blakey

  Country, Art, America

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• You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

  Warren Buffett

  War, Opportunity, Investing Money

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  I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Strong, Hate

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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• Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.

  John le Carre

  Literature, Fool, Language

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• That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.'

  Jim Carrey

  Good Morning, Giving, Sides

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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  Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

  Johnny Cash

  Money, Worry, World

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

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• Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.

  Ray Charles

  Music, Memories, Play

  "Quotes: Ray Charles in His Own Words", www.foxnews.com. June 10, 2004.

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• What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of people with no degrees are brilliant.

  John Henrik Clarke

  People, Degrees, Brilliant

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• For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.

  John Cleese

  Growing Up, Men, Umpires

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  I have always hated that damn James Bond. I'd like to kill him.

  Sean Connery

  Ties, Hatred, Hated

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not an Adonis, that's for damn sure. I've never really thought of myself that way, and it doesn't matter to me. My favorite actors aren't Adonises. Dustin Hoffman is a flawed-looking man; he's amazing to me. Tom Hanks is flawed-looking; people love him. Same with Gene Hackman.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Men, People, Actors

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

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• I have been a waitress, and I was a damn fine waitress too, let me tell you.

  Jessica Lange

  Waitress, Fine, Let Me

  "Jessica Lange Says Don't Come Knocking". Interview With Julian Roman, movieweb.com. March 20, 2006.

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• I enjoy going to work and having a good time. It's tough when you got to work with people who just are in a bad mood all the damn time.

  Queen Latifah

  People, Bad Mood, Good Times

  "Queen Latifah Interview - HAIRSPRAY". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 15, 2007.

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• A lot of people are crazy, cruel and negative. They got a little too much time on their hands to discuss everybody else. I have a limited amount of energy to blow in a day. I'd rather read something that I like or watch a program I enjoy or ride my damn motorcycle or throw back a couple of shots of tequila with my friends.

  Queen Latifah

  Couple, Crazy, Blow

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• Racism is ignorant. And it's stupid. And it's old. And it's played out. So beat it already with that, you know what I mean? 'Let's all get along' - I'm so tired of that damn sentence, but it's true.

  Queen Latifah

  Stupid, Tired, Mean

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• I'm a big potato chip girl. I don't like chocolate and cakes and all that, but I have to have my potato chips. I've got bags in the back of my car right now! But I never beat myself up about it, because, look: You can't give up every damn thing. You need something in your life that you like just because you like it!

  NeNe Leakes

  Girl, Giving Up, Cake

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• But I always wound up being the damn John, when I wanted to be the Paul.

  Courtney Love

  Wanted, Wounds

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• I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Men, Talking, Religion

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• It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

  Harold MacMillan

  Growing Up, Fool, Firsts

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