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• As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to, but I don’t put any trust in it. We never understand each other.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Use, Language, Sentences

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• Do you know anybody under 25 that gives a damn whether you marry a man if you're a man or if you marry a woman if you're a woman? No.

  Graham Nash

  Men, Giving, Ifs

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• Large men in black plate mail with red cloaks and plumes don't sneak worth a damn.

  Tanya Huff

  Men, Black, Mail

  Tanya Huff (2011). “Nights of the Round Table: And Other Stories of Heroic Fantasy”, p.124, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

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• I assure you that the training that you get in a midget, in a sprint car and perhaps in a Silver Crown car is really the kind of experience that makes you into a damn good race driver.

  Rodger Ward

  Race, Umpires, Car

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• It's not because I'm bitter or because I don't agree with him politically. I've always been a registered Republican. But it's bad taste to talk about ex-husbands and ex-wives, that's all. Also, I don't know a damn thing about politics.

  Jane Wyman

  Husband, Wife, Taste

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

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• I was born with success. Lucky for me I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it!

  Larry Hagman

  Lucky, Able, Born

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

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• It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn't know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.

  Bela Lugosi

  Umpires, People, Hell

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• For even in hell, I still have faith, To one day be free with my father at the gates, But make no mistakes, I'll show you what time takes, To be a success on earth, mixed with all the hate, I stand on my pivot, my life you could not live it For the things that I've seen have been too damn explicit.

  Kid Cudi

  Father, Hate, Mistake

  "Song: "Down & Out" (debut mixtape "A Kid Named Cudi")". July 17, 2008.

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• Fearlessness is a fool's boast, to my mind. The only men with no fear in them are dead, or the soon to be dead, maybe. Fear teaches you caution, and respect for your enemy, and to avoid sharp edges used in anger. All good things in their place, believe me. Fear can bring you out alive, and that's the very best anyone can hope for from any fight. Every man who's worth a damn feels fear. It's the use you make of it that counts.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Believe, Fighting, Men

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• And I really haven't done a damn thing.

  Pat Tillman

  Done, Havens, Damn Things

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• Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.

  George S. Patton

  Duty, Consequence

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• People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.

  Diane Setterfield

  Ambition, Thinking, People

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar-room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive.

  Raymond Chandler

  God, Writing, Eye

  Letter to Edward Weeks, 18 Jan. 1947, in F. MacShane Life of Raymond Chandler (1976) ch. 7

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• Don King is a damn sleezebag. King is nothing but a strong-arm man. He has taken his gangsterism and put it into boxing.

  Don King

  Strong, Kings, Taken

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• [A knuckleball is] a curve ball that doesn't give a damn.

  Jimmy Cannon

  Baseball, Curves, Giving

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• I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Damn Things

  "Pete Rose Admits He Bet on Baseball". ABC News, abcnews.go.com.

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• So whatever you want to do, just do it... Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.

  Gloria Steinem

  Essentials, Want, Fool

  Gloria Steinem's Commencement Address at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. May 17, 1987.

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• No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.

  Edward Abbey

  Wise, Men, Sight

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.17, RosettaBooks

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• My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'

  Edward Abbey

  Aunt, Giving, Age

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.27, RosettaBooks

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• There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Baby, Kindness, Be Kind

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Aug 27, 2014

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• Touching your cap to the Squire may be damn bad for the Squire, but it's damn good for you.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Touching, May, Caps

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• Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Waiting, Watches, Life Is

  V. S. Naipaul, Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (2000). “Miguel Street”, p.88, Heinemann

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• When someone really hears you without passing judgment on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you, it feels damn good. . . . When I have been listened to and when I have been heard, I am able to re-perceive my world in a new way and to go on. It is astonishing how elements which seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens. How confusions which seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard.

  Carl Rogers

  Responsibility, Confusion, Empathy

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• People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there. Maybe my methods aren't socially acceptable to some, but it's what I have to do to survive. I don't go out there to love my enemy. I go out there to squash him.

  Jimmy Connors

  War, Squash, People

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• What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe

  James Dickey

  Writing, Realizing, Love Poetry

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