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• Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Long, Live Free, Ideology

  Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (1988). “The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1938-1962”, p.26, Stanford University Press

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• Never use the word, 'very.' It is the weakest word in the English language; doesn't mean anything. If you feel the urge of 'very' coming on, just write the word, 'damn,' in the place of 'very.' The editor will strike out the word, 'damn,' and you will have a good sentence.

  William Allen White

  Writing, Mean, Editors

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• Once again I've been invited to the program WET. I gathered my thoughts and experiences and had the best time, these girls are so smart and mature and could teach me a thing or two. Once again I came out feeling good, it was the best therapy session ever. Damn these girls are good!

  Judy Marte

  Girl, Smart, Two

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• This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it...Plus, being married and monogamous, it's the closest thing I can do to having sex without getting in trouble for it...The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Sex, Years, Rocks

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• People have a bad habit of blaming the victims. Damn Jews! If hadn't been for them the Nazis wouldn't have exterminated 'em all!

  Ward Churchill

  People, Ems, Blame

  "Pacifism and Pathology in the American Left". Ward Churchill's Speech in Oakland, California, November 16, 2001.

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• Punk was over in two years. That was the only damn good thing about it.

  Julie Burchill

  Years, Two, Punk

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• The personal qualities necessary for attaining office are practically the opposite of those demanded by the office itself. The trouble with the damn system is that it selects for the skills needed to get elected, and nothing else. A test that you can only pass by cheating can't possibly select honest people.

  James P. Hogan

  Cheating, Opposites, Skills

  James P. Hogan (1983). “Code of the Lifemaker”, Del Rey

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• As a personal matter I don't give a damn where mosques, churches, temples or other religious shrines and symbols are built as long as they don't tear down decent saloons in the process.

  Bob Higgins

  Religious, Long, Common Sense

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• Practice like it means everything in the world to you.  Perform like you don't give a damn.

  Jascha Heifetz

  Mean, Practice, Giving

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• Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.

  Tom Peters

  Differences, Skills, Public Speaking

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• I'm convinced that theatre is a horrible business. Make this the headline. You have to be on the spot every night as an actor. You are damn lonesome standing out there.

  Walter D. Asmus

  Night, Theatre, Actors

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• To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.

  James Frey

  Attitude, Writing, Needs

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• The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.

  John D. MacDonald

  Philosophy, Touching, World

  John D MacDonald (2013). “Bright Orange for the Shroud: Introduction by Lee Child: Travis McGee”, p.5, Random House

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• Now it stands to reason, mister, any damn fool stares into the sun long enough, he'll end up seeing exactly what some other damn fool tells him he's going to see.

  John D. MacDonald

  Long, Fool, Sun

  "A Flash of Green". Book by John D. MacDonald, 1962.

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• I like a little danger. Tame danger, controlled by me. It gives me a sense of power, I guess, to take my life in my hands and know damn well I’m not going to lose it.

  Ross Macdonald

  Hands, Giving, Littles

  Ross Macdonald (1967). “Archer in Hollywood: Three Exciting Novels”

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• Don’t do what you know on a gut level to be the wrong thing to doI don’t think there’s a single dumbass thing I’ve done in my adult life that I didn’t know was a dumbass thing to do while I was doing it. Even when I justified it to myself—as I did every damn time—the truest part of me knew I was doing the wrong thing. Always. As the years pass, I’m learning how to better trust my gut and not do the wrong thing, but every so often I get a harsh reminder that I’ve still got work to do.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Thinking, Years, Adults

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• Anything easy ain't worth a damn!

  Woody Hayes

  Easy

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• Nothing that comes easy in this world is worth a damn.

  Woody Hayes

  World, Easy, This World

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• When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.

  Maurice de Vlaminck

  Hands, Umpires, People

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• There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus. If you're on the bus, and you get left behind, then you'll find it again. If you're off the bus in the first place — then it won't make a damn.

  Ken Kesey

  Waiting, Firsts, Pranksters

  Quoted in TomWolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968)

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• The Death Star is just full of British actors opening doors and going,Oh... I... oh... What is it Lieutenant Sebastian? It's just the Rebels, sir... they're here. My God, man! Do they want tea? No, I think they're after something a bit more than that, sir. I don't know what it is, but they've brought a flag. Damn, that's dash cunning of them.

  Eddie Izzard

  Stars, Men, Thinking

  "Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• One of my chores was to milk the cows, which meant getting up before dawn and going out to that cold dark barn. I didn't expect to make it all the way to the big leagues; I just had to get way from them damn cows.

  Edd Roush

  Baseball, Dark, League

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• X & O's aren't worth a damn without a team. If your team isn't with you it doesn't matter what you draw up. The team must respect what the coach is asking them to do

  Hubie Brown

  Basketball, Team, Nba

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• Economic independence is the foundation of the only sort of freedom worth a damn

  H. L. Mencken

  Independence, Foundation, Economic

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• I don't care a damn for their guns, or you either, sir! What I want is the Southside Railroad!

  Philip Sheridan

  War, Gun, Railroads

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