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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I'm a relatively ugly character who's done pretty damn well in film.

  Kevin Spacey

  Character, Done, Ugly

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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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• The only reason they're out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.

  Billie Holiday

  Fall, Pits, Orchestra

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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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• 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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• 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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• I am someone who proudly and humbly affirms that love is the mystery-of-mysteries, and that nothing measurable matters 'a very good God damn'; that 'an artist, a man, a failure' is no mere whenfully accreting mechanism, but a givingly eternal complexity-neither some soulless and heartless ultrapredatory infra-animal nor any understandingly knowing and believing and thinking automaton, but a naturally and miraculously whole human being-a feelingly illimitable individual; whose only happiness is to transcend himself, whose every agony is to grow.

  e. e. cummings

  Believe, Artist, Animal

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• The concept of paying one-hundred-and-something times earnings for any company for me is just anathema. Having said that, at the end of the day, your job is to buy what goes up and to sell what goes down so really who gives a damn about PE's?

  Paul Tudor Jones

  Jobs, Giving, The End Of The Day

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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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• 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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• The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

  A. J. Liebling

  Writing, Way, Wells

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• I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: 'A pretty move, for the love of God.' And when good soccer happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don't give a damn which team or country performs it.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Soccer, Country, Team

  Eduardo Galeano (2013). “Soccer in Sun and Shadow”, p.1, Nation Books

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• I'd rather violate every one of the damn conventions and see my bills passed, than sit back in my office, all nice and proper, and watch 'em die.

  Huey Long

  Nice, Office, Watches

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• It ain't that you get religion. Religion gets you and then milks you dry. Won't let you drink a little whiskey. Won't let you make no fat-assed girls grin and giggle. Won't let you do a damn thing except work for what you'll get in the hearafter. I live in the here and now.

  Dorothy Allison

  Girl, Dry, Littles

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• I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top. They don't give a damn for anybody else who may be in distress and it doesn't impress me at all that they leave someone lying under a rock to die.

  Edmund Hillary

  Attitude, Lying, Thinking

  "Death on Everest divides climbers" by Sasha Shtargot and Janine Bennetts, www.theage.com.au. May 25, 2006.

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• I give a damn if any fan recalls my legacy, I'm trying to live life in the sight of GOD's memory.

  Mos Def

  Memories, Live Life, Sight

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• Ed Miliband doesn't give a damn about what he looks like, how he dresses. He came into politics to change society.

  Ken Livingstone

  Giving, Dresses, Looks

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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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• You have delivered up our holy German Fatherland to one of the greatest demagogues of all time. I solemnly prophesy that this accursed man will cast our Reich into the abyss and bring our nation to inconceivable misery. Future generations will damn you in your grave for what you have done.

  Ian Kershaw

  Men, Damn You, Historical

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• I should have my own show by now. Yeah. How many damn sitcoms does Kelsey Grammer need? How many more stupid Housewives do they need throwing tables and limbs at each other. Yeah, I guess I need to take off my artificial leg and throw it at Vanderpump. I like doing live shows - it's just getting to them that's a hassle.Doing films is fun too ... a good film ... but there's a lot of waiting around.

  Judy Tenuta

  Fun, Stupid, Waiting Around

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?

  Eileen Atkins

  Hands, People, Mind

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