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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I love technology. Matches, to light a fire is really high tech. The wheel is REALLY one of the great inventions of all time. Other than that I am an ignoramus about technology. I once looked for the 'ON' button on the computer and came to find out it was on the back. Then I thought, anyone who would put the 'on' switch on the back, where you can't find it, doesn't do any good for my psyche. The one time I did get the computer on, I couldn't turn the damn thing off!

  William Shatner

  Technology, Fire, Light

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• He never contributed a damn thing to music. (on Elvis Presley)

  Bing Crosby

  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If I were in the President's place, I would not get a chance to resign. I would be lying in a pool of my own blood
  hearing Mrs. Armey, standing over me, saying, 'How do I reload this damn thing?'

  Dick Armey

  Lying, Blood, President

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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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• They have hyped up HIV into this super-rapist but in reality the damn thing can hardly get an erection.

  Peter Duesberg

  Reality, Hiv, Damn

  "Times of London", May 11, 1992.

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• I truly love [Andy Serkis]. He's an amazing guy. Yeah, I think that when we really synced up was when he came over to my place, the place I rented in Vancouver, and we had like two bottles of wine, and what a night. What a night. And by the way, I don't remember a damn thing we talked about, but I can tell you it would've been like the greatest conversation if we could've written it down or something, because it was incredible. He's such a bright, amazing guy.

  Woody Harrelson

  Wine, Night, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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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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