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• My wife and I lived all alone,
  contention was our only bone.
  I fought with her, she fought with me,
  and things went on right merrily.
  But now I live here by myself
  with hardly a damn thing on the shelf,
  and pass my days with little cheer
  since I have parted from my dear.

  Robert Creeley

  Marriage, Cheer, Wife

  Robert Creeley, Benjamin Friedlander (2008). “Selected Poems, 1945-2005”, p.67, Univ of California Press

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• Politics is like roller skating. You go partly where you want to go, and partly where the damn things take you.

  Henry F. Ashurst

  Skating, Politics, Want

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• You don't have to tell anybody a damn thing you don't want to.

  Mink Stole

  Want, Damn Things

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• The goals are not about the sweet smell of success as much as it's about enjoying a damn day on the movie set... I live in a complete state of grace.

  Peter Weller

  Sweet, Smell, Goal

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• As our voices rise in protest, the NSA monitors your every phone call. if you have a cell phone, you are under surveillance. I believe what you do on your cell phone is none of their damn business.

  Rand Paul

  Believe, Phones, Cells

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• Sex had been amazing, but it wasn't a magical cure for everything. Damn. Somewhere along the way, I'd picked up common sense.

  Richelle Mead

  Sex, Common Sense, Way

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.1369, Penguin

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• I drink to not giving a damn . . .

  Sheridan Hay

  Giving, Drink, Not Giving A Damn

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• I do play football no-holds-barred. Any edge I can get, I'll take. I'd grab a face mask only in a fit of anger. Uncontrolled anger is damn near insane.

  Joe Greene

  Football, Play, Insane

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• Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player.

  George Farquhar

  Player, Wicked, Genius

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• The poor taxpayer may wipe his shoes on a $3 doormat when he goes home, but not the Navy. It is, damn the cost, full feet ahead on a doormat you would be ashamed to get muddy.

  William Proxmire

  Home, Shoes, Feet

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• Walking on camera is damn hard. It's a Jewish problem. The rangy stride across the blasted moor is not really a Jewish thing.

  Simon Schama

  Cameras, Problem, Moors

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• Look, I don't know whether God exists. I don't know that. And I tell you one thing, I am not frightened of my beliefs. If there is a God who is threatening me with damnation because I don't believe in Him, so be it. I've lived my life in conscience, and I will suffer damnation willingly in conscience against a tyrannical God who would damn me because, on the basis of the intelligence He gave me, I have come to a conclusion doubting His existence, and I will continue to be a skeptic all of my life.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Believe, If There Is A God, Doubt

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• I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and God damn it - died in a hotel room.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Dying, Rooms, Famous Last Words

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• We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life. We could be sitting in a monastery somewhere in Japan. We could be out sailing. Some of the team could be playing golf. They could be running other companies. And we've all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it. And we think it is.

  Steve Jobs

  Running, Team, Creativity

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• And we've all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Chosen, Our Lives

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• A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.

  Sam Rayburn

  Independent, Hockey, Boys

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• If I don't drive around the park, I'm pretty sure to make my mark. If I'm in bed each night by ten, I may get back my looks again. If I abstain from fun and such, I'll probably amount to much; But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.

  Dorothy Parker

  Fun, Humorous, Night

  Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

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• Many risks fail because they were not taken in time. Too many risks are postponed until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made. This does not mean that one should say, Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! That is foolish and self-destructive. . . . But don't sit back waiting for the perfect moment. It almost never comes.

  David Viscott

  Inspirational, Motivational, Taken

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• When I was in my studio I didn't give a damn what sex I was... I thought art is art.

  Alice Neel

  Art, Sex, Giving

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• Damn everything but the circus! ...damn everything that is grim, dull, motionless, unrisking, inward turning, damn everything that won't get into the circle, that won't enjoy. That won't throw it's heart into the tension, surprise, fear and delight of the circus, the round world, the full existence.

  e. e. cummings

  Heart, Circles, Inward

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• We make and sell a very, very large number of (hopefully) beautiful, well-made things. Our success is a victory for purity, integrity - for giving a damn.

  Jonathan Ive

  Beautiful, Integrity, Numbers

  "Jonathan Ive designs tomorrow" by John Arlidge, time.com. March 17, 2014.

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• The future is fastidious and punctual. It keeps perfect time and arrives everywhere on the dot. In contrast, its slacker brother the past has no use for clocks or appointments. It comes and goes as it pleases in our memory, camping out wherever the hell it damn well wants to in there. Untrustworthy, prone to exaggeration, biased- you wouldn't lend it ten cents, but it *sure* can be charming and seductive when it feels like it.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Brother, Memories, Past

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• I have a friend — or had a friend, now dead — Abdus Salam, a very devout Muslim, who was trying to bring science into the universities in the Gulf states and he told me that he had a terrible time because, although they were very receptive to technology, they felt that science would be a corrosive to religious belief, and they were worried about it… and damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive of religious belief, and it’s a good thing too.

  Steven Weinberg

  Religious, Technology, Thinking

  "The Atheism Tapes". Documentary, 2004.

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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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• War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad it wasn't them.

  Herman Wouk

  War, People, Watches

  Herman Wouk (1951). “The Caine mutiny: a novel of World War II.”, Garden City

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