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• Damn it, when I'm bombastic, I have my reasons. I want to be bombastic-take it or leave it.

  Dave Brubeck

  Music, Want, Jazz

  Doug Ramsey, Dave Brubeck, Iola Brubeck, Paul Caulfield (2005). “Take five: the public and private lives of Paul Desmond”, Parkside Pubns

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• It's like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinds of scratches and marks, you ain't gonna say, 'Damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from the concrete.' You're gonna be like, 'Damn, a rose grew from the concrete?'

  Tupac Shakur

  Music, Rose, Scratches

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• We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.

  J. William Fulbright

  Power, Political, Politics

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• And yet this same Deity says to me, resist not evil; pray for those that despitefully use you; love your enemies, but I will eternally damn mine. It seems to me that even gods should practice what they preach.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Love You, Practice, Evil

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2122, Library of Alexandria

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• Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Wisdom, Witty, Clever

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.

  Bill Shankly

  Funny, Teamwork, Football

  "How Benítez built Liverpool" by Kevin McCarra, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2006.

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• You're not living until it doesn't matter a tinker's damn to you whether you live or die. At that point you live. When you're ready to lose your life, you live it.

  Anthony de Mello

  Life, Spiritual, Matter

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.169, Image

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• Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.

  Francis Chichester

  Inspirational, Funny, Drinking

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• I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone

  Katharine Hepburn

  Independent, Men, Support

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• I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn't replacing Babe Ruth.

  Roger Maris

  Baseball, Trying, Records

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• If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Writing, Character, Passion

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• Easy reading is damn hard writing.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Powerful, Reading, Writing

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• Damn, tell me where did all the magic go? I followed the rules and told you everything you had to know

  Drake

  Break Up, Breakup, Magic

  Song: July

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• You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.

  Billie Holiday

  Body, Littles, Holding On

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.198, Broadway Books

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• If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!

  Count Basie

  Music, Night, Play

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• Every painting is a war. You have to struggle every day, and to struggle every day with your inadequacies is a damn nuisance.

  Neil Welliver

  Art, War, Struggle

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• It doesn't matter one damn bit whether fashion is art or not. You don't question whether an incredible chef is an artist or not-his cakes are delicious and that's all that matters.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Fashion, Art, Cake

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• Ty Cobb was still fighting the Civil War, and as far as he was concerned, we were all damn Yankees. But who knows, if he hadn't had that terrible persecution complex, he never would have been about the best ballplayer who ever lived.

  Sam Crawford

  Baseball, War, Fighting

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• You saw him standing out there, and you knew you had a pretty damn good chance to win the baseball game.

  Red Ruffing

  Baseball, Winning, Games

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• The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

  Penn Jillette

  Atheist, Character, Atheism

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• They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief and it's a good thing.

  Steven Weinberg

  Religious, Atheist, Thinking

  "Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief" (BBC Four), 2005.

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• The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, World, Had Enough

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• Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

  John Steinbeck

  Loneliness, People, World

  John Steinbeck (2013). “Of Mice and Men: Teacher's Deluxe Edition”, p.38, Penguin

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• How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.

  Dorothy Parker

  Beautiful, Sleep, Night

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.197, Penguin

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• Well, I've lost my wife. I've lost my job. I've lost 20 MINUTES OF MY LIFE! Damn the decaf.

  Dave Foley

  Jobs, Coffee, Wife

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