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• It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest, and I had long ago become accustomed to being called 'Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.

  Alan Bradley

  Daughter, Father, Long Ago

  Alan Bradley (2016). “The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.193, Delacorte Press

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• Carrying those double tanks around all the time got to be a little rough on me. I had to put that damn wetsuit on and take it off, sometimes three or four times a day.

  Lloyd Bridges

  Tanks, Three, Double Standard

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• Basically, what happened was, I had moved out to Los Angeles, I was pretty damn lazy and I put on some pounds.

  Jason Biggs

  Umpires, Lazy, Pounds

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• The cultural insistence that parenting is the 'most important' job in the world is a smart way to satiate unappreciated women without doing a damn thing for them.

  Jessica Valenti

  Jobs, Smart, Important

  Jessica Valenti (2012). “Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth about Parenting and Happiness”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damn scoundrel, and if you were any part of a man I would slap your jaws and force you to resent it.

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  War, Men, Long

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• The thing that I think was very brave of my younger self was that he decided he would be an idiot. Just persevere. That feels brave to me: deciding that I'm going to damn well be this person that I've set my heart on being.

  Salman Rushdie

  Heart, Thinking, Self

  What I've Learned: Salman Rushdie" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 31, 2005.

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• God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.

  Garrett Fort

  Evil, Soul, Mind

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• Damn, Claire. Warn a guy before you do a face-plant on the floor next time. I could have looked all heroic and caught you or something -Shane

  Rachel Caine

  Funny, Guy, Next

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• Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak
  human, not the other way around.

  Spider Robinson

  Robots, Fiction, Way

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• The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.

  Jodi Picoult

  May, Who We Are, Damn Good

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when he hears the lion's growl, he knows damn well it's a lion.

  Sheldon Vanauken

  Night, Men, Lions

  Sheldon Vanauken (2011). “A Severe Mercy”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• If I play badly I'll pick a fight in the third, just to get into a fight. I'll break a guy's leg to win, I don't care. Afterward I say, 'Yeah all right I played badly, but I won the fight so who gives a damn.

  Derek Sanderson

  Fighting, Winning, Nhl

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• Everybody's bones are just holy branches cast from trees to cut patterns in the world. And in time we find some shelter, spill our leaves, and then sleep in the earth. And when we're there, we'll belong, 'cause the earth don't give a damn if you're lost.

  Radical Face

  Sleep, Cutting, Giving

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• My heart jumps out of its cage to see what the fuss is about. Damn thing. Always so hopeful, but my voice hides it well.

  Sarah Wylie

  Heart, Voice, Hopeful

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• I am a God, so hurry up with my damn massage; in a French-ass restaurant, hurry up with my damn croissants.

  Kanye West

  Inspirational, Massage, Restaurants

  Song: I Am A God, Album: Yeezus, 2013

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• I would not send my child to a vacation Bible school in 99.9% of the Baptist churches in America. Have some teacher that doesn't even understand anything about the gospel of Jesus Christ, ask those little children, 'How many of you want to go to Heaven?' and damn most of them! Harden their heart to the gospel with some silly profession of faith because it was a silly proclamation of the gospel! It brought no genuine repentance, it brought no faith; it's no different than the Roman church that baptizes every infant that is born.

  Paul Washer

  Teacher, Jesus, Children

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• The oppposite of love is not hate. Hate is just love gone bad. The actual oppposite of love is apathy. When you don't care a damn as to what happens to the other person.

  Amish Tripathi

  Hate, Love Is, Apathy

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• It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.

  Thomas Harris

  Planets, Slippery, Hard

  Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.167, Penguin

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• To a student: Dear Miss - I have read about sixteen pages of your manuscript . . . I suffered exactly the same treatment at the hands of my teachers who disliked me for my independence and passed over me when they wanted assistants. . . . Keep your manuscript for your sons and daughters, in order that they may derive consolation from it and not give a damn for what their teachers tell them or think of them. . . . There is too much education altogether.

  Albert Einstein

  Daughter, Teacher, Son

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• You can go left, you can go right, I don't give a damn. Just make a decision.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Giving, Decision, Left

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• I think I prefer for the listener to decide for themselves what stuff means, because I always hate it when I think a song is about a horse, and then it turns out to be about a damn trip to France.

  Amanda Shires

  Song, Horse, Hate

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• Why don't those damn oil companies fly their own flags on their personal property-maybe a flag with a gas pump on it.

  Smedley Butler

  Oil, Flags, Pumps

  Smedley D. Butler (2003). “War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier”, Feral House

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• Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.

  John Milton

  Men, Devil, Shame

  John Milton (1853). “The Paradise lost”, p.79

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• To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

  Robert E. Sherwood

  Liars, Lying, Writing

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• There isn't a damn thing wrong with prayer. During the war I served with a guy who prayed all the time, carried a Bible with him everywhere. We all mocked him to no end. One day, that Bible stopped a bullet, my hand to God, that Bible stopped a bullet. If only he'd had another Bible in front of his face, he'd be alive today.

  Delroy Lindo

  Prayer, War, Hands

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