Damn Quotes - Page 14

• Mother Nature is a relentless ruthless killer. She don't give a damn if you get home to your family.

  Joe Teti

  Mother, Home, Giving

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• I don't know about you, but rattlesnake sounds pretty damn good right now.

  Joe Teti

  Survival, Sound, Rattlesnakes

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• There's a lot of Hollywood bullshit about flying. I mean, look at the movies about test pilots or fighter pilots who face imminent death. The controls are jammed or something really important has fallen off the plane, and these guys are talking like magpies; their lives are flashing past their eyes, and they're flailing around in the cockpit. It just doesn't happen. You don't have time to talk. You're too damn busy trying to get out of the problem you're in to talk or ricochet around the cockpit. Or think about what happened the night after your senior prom.

  Robin Olds

  Senior, Eye, Mean

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• The threat of China is not military. The threat of China is they can't be intimidated. Europe you can intimidate. When the US tries to get people to stop investing in Iran, European companies pull out, China disregards it. You look at history and understand why - they've been around for 4,000 years, they have contempt for the barbarians, they just don't give a damn.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Iran, Years

  Interview with Robert Trivers, seedmagazine.com. September 06, 2006.

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• But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.

  Roberto Bolano

  Running, Art, Lying

  "Last Evenings on Earth". Book by Roberto Bolaño, 2006.

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  The best friends you will ever have are the ones who don't make you feel like you owe them a damn thing.

  Corey Taylor

  Like You, Feels, Damn Things

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• I'm intact, and I don't give a damn.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Giving, Don't Give A Damn, I Don't Give A Damn

  Arthur Rimbaud (1976). “A Season in Hell”, Pomegranate Press (MA)

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• It sometimes happens that pleasure blows anywhere it damn well chooses.

  Louis Aragon

  Blow, Sometimes, Pleasure

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• I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of windburn...but the troops were dazzled!

  James Goldman

  Troops, Maids, Halfway

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• People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Life, Fear, Ignorance

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.637, Penguin

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• Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking.

  Jim Butcher

  Real, Guy, Warning

  Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.359, Penguin

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• You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life - the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.

  Doris Lessing

  Writing, Important, Care

  Doris May Lessing (1996). “Putting questions differently: interviews with Doris Lessing, 1964-1994”

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• If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don't deserve to win.

  Fred Hampton

  Struggle, Winning, Dare

  YouTube Channel "jerbo414"/"Fred Hampton Speech: 'Why don't you die for the people'", www.youtube.com. August 28, 2010.

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• Never miss an opportunity to keep your damn mouth shut.

  Duff McKagan

  Opportunity, Missing, Mouths

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• Where do people get off saying the Beatles should give $200,000,000 to South America? You know, America has poured billions into places like that. It doesn't mean a damn thing. After they've eaten that meal, then what? It lasts for only a day. After the $200,000,000 is gone, then what? It goes round and round in circles. You can pour money in forever. After Peru, then Harlem, then Britain. There is no one concert. We would have to dedicate the rest of our lives to one world concert tour, and I'm not ready for it. Not in this lifetime, anyway.

  John Lennon

  Music, Mean, Circles

  Playboy Interview, January 1981.

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• Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.

  Edith Piaf

  Law, People, Giving

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• Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.

  Edith Piaf

  Pay, Fool, This Life

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• You know, I've done this show for six years, and this could be the first time that I had a person that actually got no points, and I think it's a damn fine way to go out. I thought I was a loser until you walked up here; you made me feel like a man.

  Ray Combs

  Men, Thinking, Years

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• Elephants are living treasures. Nature's gardeners. Nature's great teachers. Tragically some people don't give a damn. They prefer the dead treasure to the living one. The ivory. We must challenge this so-called 'trade' with all our might and shame on those who would condone it.

  Virginia McKenna

  Teacher, Elephants, Ivory

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• I meet a lot of young people in the Midwest, and I saw what a difference a show like In the Life can make to their lives in some of these small towns where, you know, there are probably two gay people in the whole damn town.

  Lesley Gore

  Gay, Two, Differences

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• We've got great flexibility and a certain discipline in terms of not doing some foolish thing just to be active - discipline in avoiding just doing any damn thing just because you can't stand inactivity.

  Charlie Munger

  What Matters, Discipline, Foolish

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• In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.

  Mordecai Richler

  Umpires, Giving, Canada

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• I mean people up here aren't stupid, I'm lower gene pool and I kind of sit in amazement at watching some of them because they are pretty damn smart.

  Doug Ose

  Stupid, Smart, Mean

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• The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.

  Kary Mullis

  Years, Umpires, Viruses

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• People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there.

  Jimmy Connors

  War, Umpires, People

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