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• Oh it's TRUE, it's DAMN true.

  Kurt Angle

  Wrestling

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• I'm opposed to a lot of the time that we as a civilization have come to spend looking at screens. For my money, life is much delicious damn near everyplace but inside that screen.

  Nick Offerman

  Life Changing, Civilization, Life Is

  Nick Offerman (2013). “Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living”, p.209, Penguin

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• Shut your damn mouth.

  Nick Offerman

  Life Changing, Mouths

  "Fictional character: Emmett Clements". Hannie Caulder. Ernest Borgnine: Emmett Clemens, www.imdb.com. 1971.

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• If I could start my life all over again, I would be a professional football player, and you damn well better believe I would be a Pittsburgh Steeler.

  Jack Lambert

  Football, Believe, Player

  "Check Out the Pittsburgh Steelers Hall of Fame Tribute Video" by Bryan DeArdo, www.cbssports.com. August 05, 2016.

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• Lets go eat a God damn snack

  Rex Ryan

  Sports, Letting Go, Football

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• Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy.

  Huey Long

  Funny, Work, Umpires

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• The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

  Agatha Christie

  Winning, People, Giving

  Agatha Christie (1989). “Remembered death”, Free Press

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• Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Writing

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• ...You have to pass an exam, and the jobs that you get are either to shine shoes, or to herd cows, or to tend pigs. Thank God, I don't want any of that! Damn it! And besides that they smack you for a reward; they call you an animal and it's not true, a little kid, etc.. Oh! Damn Damn Damn Damn Damn!

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Jobs, Kids, Animal

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• Dollars damn me; and the malicious Devil is forever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar. ... What I feel most moved to write, that is banned - it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the other way I cannot. So the product is a final hash, and all my books are botches.

  Herman Melville

  Book, Writing, Doors

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle, Hershel Parker (1988). “Moby Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition”, p.630, Northwestern University Press

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• I was in the midst of it all - saw war where war is worst - not on the battlefields, no - in the hospitals ... there I mixed with it: and now I say God damn the wars - allw ars: God damn every war: God damn 'em! God damn 'em!

  Walt Whitman

  War, Ems, Saws

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• I'm the head coach at LSU. I will be the head coach at LSU. I have no interest in talking to anybody else. I got a championship game to play, and I'm excited for the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it. Please ask me after. I'm busy. Thank you very much. Have a great day!

  Les Miles

  Football, Strong, Team

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• Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.

  Charlie Munger

  Jobs, Intelligent, Investing

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• She think I'm the realest out and I say 'damn that makes 2 of us'.

  Drake

  Lying, Real, Thinking

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• Damn where my roof just go, I'm somebody that you should know
  Get to shakin somethin cause that's what Drama produced it fo'

  Drake

  Drama, Causes, Bragging

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• That's why I got a new dumb thing moving through the streets
  Got a new condo moving to the beach
  Heard Nicki just bought a brand new crib
  Got damn man she's beauty and the beast

  Drake

  Beach, Moving, Men

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• I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life altogether; the other is going right deep down into life and not caring a damn.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Real, Believe, Writing

  P. G. Wodehouse (2000). “Sunset at Blandings”, Penguin Group USA

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• Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you go along, just get to the end of the damn thing. Accept imperfections. Get it finished and then you can go back. If you try to polish every sentence there's a chance you'll never get past the first chapter.

  Iain Banks

  Writing, Past, Perfect

  Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2008.

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• It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Real, Writing, Giving

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• The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, Writing, Lucky

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.305, Simon and Schuster

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• Pretty much everyone I know, no matter what size, is trying some system. Even when someone gets to looking like she should be so proud of herself, instead she's like, 'I could be another three pounds less; I could be a little taller and have bigger lips.' Where does it end? You just have to say, 'It's pretty damn good. I am right here at the moment and I'm OK with it. I've got other things to think about.'

  Melissa McCarthy

  Thinking, Trying, Proud

  "Funny Girl: Exclusive Interview with Melissa McCarthy". Interview with David A. Keeps, www.goodhousekeeping.com. November 6, 2012.

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• Available light is any damn light that is available!

  W. Eugene Smith

  Photography, Light, Photographer

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• There's no particular class of photograph that I think is any better than any other class. I'm always and forever looking for the image that has spirit! I don't give a damn how it got made.

  Minor White

  Photography, Thinking, Class

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• I will not last forever. But I am damn well going to know I have been here.

  George A. Sheehan

  Swimming, Forever, Lasts

  George A. Sheehan, George Sheehan (1992). “Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great”, Outlet

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• Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.

  Barry Goldwater

  Christian, Religious, Party

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