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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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• We don't owe the blacks a damn thing, anyway.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Damn

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• On corsets: I said, You have got to be kidding. I am an ape and yet I am still expected to squeeze myself into one of those damn things.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Apes, Said, Damn

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• It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Funny, Life, Existence

  Letter to Arthur Davison Ficke, 24 Oct. 1930 See Modern Proverbs 52

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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 The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

  Phil Douglas

  Teamwork, Football, Men

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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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• 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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• 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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• The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.

  Joseph Epstein

  Running, True Joy, Texas

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• People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

  Albert Ellis

  Bothering You, People, Damn

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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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• 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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• Since I came to the White House, I got two hearing aids, a colon operation, skin cancer, a prostate operation, and I was shot. The damn thing is, I've never felt better in my life.

  Ronald Reagan

  Cancer, Two, White

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• My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.

  Dan Blocker

  Insomnia, Daddy, Littles

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• I think you're right, Wyatt. I can't see a God damn thing.

  Morgan Earp

  Thinking, Damn, Last Words

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• I'm the best damn thing that your eyes have ever seen

  Avril Lavigne

  Eye, Damn

  Song: The Best Damn Thing, Album: The Best Damn Thing, 2007

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• There's not a damn thing that I do on my own that's not for my fans or for people that have supported me. So, I don't really care about my agenda, I wanna be on yours.

  Darren Criss

  People, Fans, Agendas

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

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• About the same time, I realized that it was suddenly going away from me and there I was, running at about 300 miles per hour. I tracked it for a little way, and then all of a sudden the damn thing just took off. It pulled about a 45 degree climbing turn and accelerated and just flat disappeared.

  Deke Slayton

  Running, Climbing, Going Away

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• It was Vivaldi's Mandolin Concerto, Francesca Abraham realized as the radio alarm went off. Lively, unrelentingly upbeat, it was the perfect tempo in which to start the day. Covering her head with a pillow, she reached out blindly and urgently, desperate to shut the damn thing off.

  Naomi Ragen

  Music, Perfect, Alarms

  Naomi Ragen (2001). “The Ghost of Hannah Mendes”, p.69, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then, "Nowhere Man" came, words and music, the whole damn thing, as I lay down...Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed sleep.

  John Lennon

  Meaningful, Song, Morning

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• When I'm old I'm never going to say,I didn't do this or, I regret that. I'm going to say,I don't regret a damn thing. I came, I went, and I did it all.

  Kim Basinger

  Regret, Damn, Don't Regret

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• Well, gentlemen, life's just one damn thing after another.

  John Dustin Archbold

  Gentleman, Economics, Damn

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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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• 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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• 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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