Damn Things Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn’t even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself.

  Gayle Forman

  Fate, Keys, Doors

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

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Damn

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

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

  Pat Tillman

  Done, Damn, Havens

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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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• 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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• Everyone says we have our first African American president. Has there ever been a Jewish president? An Italian president? They don't say a damn thing about that. You think we're still fighting the Civil War or something. If you want to mention it in passing, OK. But don't dwell on it.

  Monte Irvin

  War, Fighting, Italian

  "Giants' pioneer urges outreach to black youths". Interview with John Shea, www.sfgate.com. April 18, 2010.

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• Sometimes you think you know things, know things very deeply, only to realize you don't know a damn thing.

  Jandy Nelson

  Thinking, Sometimes, Realizing

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• I might repeat to myself . . . a list of quotations from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.

  Dorothy Parker

  Profound, Mind, Might

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• Public service announcement: In case of a terrorist attack, bottled water and duct tape are not going to do a damn thing. So do what Homeland Security Dir. Tom Ridge does: Get really drunk, and pick up a hooker.

  David Letterman

  Water, Drunk, Doe

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• When you talk about state of the art, that doesn't mean a damn thing. Think about it. State of the art. "This is the state of the art brush from Winsor-Newton." Yeah, but the state of the art sucks rubber donkey lungs.

  Mike Royer

  Art, Mean, Thinking

  "Interview: Mike Royer Talks Classic Cartoons, Jack Kirby and Much More". Interview with Bryan Stroud, comicsbulletin.com. January 30, 2015.

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