Damn Quotes - Page 30

• The Spurs couldn't put everything aside and just play the damn game.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Games, Play

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• I might not be the same, but that's not important/No freedom till we're equal, damn right I support it

  William J. Clinton

  Inspiring, Gay, Equality

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• I got Moxie, I'm so damn foxy
  Industry try to block me like cops and paparazzi.

  Lauryn Hill

  Block, Cocky, Moxie

  "Song: 'Take It Easy'". 2005.

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• For even in hell, I still have faith, To one day be free with my father at the gates, But make no mistakes, I'll show you what time takes, To be a success on earth, mixed with all the hate, I stand on my pivot, my life you could not live it For the things that I've seen have been too damn explicit.

  Kid Cudi

  Father, Hate, Mistake

  "Song: "Down & Out" (debut mixtape "A Kid Named Cudi")". July 17, 2008.

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• Fearlessness is a fool's boast, to my mind. The only men with no fear in them are dead, or the soon to be dead, maybe. Fear teaches you caution, and respect for your enemy, and to avoid sharp edges used in anger. All good things in their place, believe me. Fear can bring you out alive, and that's the very best anyone can hope for from any fight. Every man who's worth a damn feels fear. It's the use you make of it that counts.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Believe, Fighting, Men

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• And I really haven't done a damn thing.

  Pat Tillman

  Done, Havens, Damn Things

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• Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.

  George S. Patton

  Duty, Consequence

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• People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.

  Diane Setterfield

  Ambition, Thinking, People

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar-room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive.

  Raymond Chandler

  God, Writing, Eye

  Letter to Edward Weeks, 18 Jan. 1947, in F. MacShane Life of Raymond Chandler (1976) ch. 7

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• Don King is a damn sleezebag. King is nothing but a strong-arm man. He has taken his gangsterism and put it into boxing.

  Don King

  Strong, Kings, Taken

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• I'm starting to cry. I'm remembering those years I struggled with my weight, those times when I saw my reflection in a store window and didn't know who that fat person was, years when it was a big accomplishment for me to exercise at two dots on the StairMaster. And now I'm finishing a 26-mile race. Damn! This is better than winning an Emmy!

  Oprah Winfrey

  Exercise, Reflection, Winning

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• A religion true to its nature must also be concerned about man's social conditions....A ny religion that professes to be concerned with the souls of men and is not concerned with the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them, and the social conditions that cripple them is a dry-as-dust religion.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Dust, Soul

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• A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life planted a walnut. Nobody does plant them nowadays-when you see a walnut it is almost invariably an old tree. If you plant a walnut you are planting it for your grandchildren, and who cares a damn for his grandchildren?

  George Orwell

  Regret, Grandchildren, Tree

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Damn to him who ever lived to wear a Halter!

  Bartholomew Roberts

  Pirate

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• You thought I was that type: that you could forget me, and that I'd plead and weep and throw myself under the hooves of a bay mare, or that I'd ask the sorcerers for some magic potion made from roots and send you a terrible gift: my precious perfumed handkerchief. Damn you! I will not grant your cursed soul vicarious tears or a single glance. And I swear to you by the garden of the angels, I swear by the miracle-working ikon, and by the fire and smoke of our nights: I will never come back to you.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Broken Heart, Angel, Night

  Anna Akhmatova, “You Thought I Was That Type”

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• Now, the question of the hour is, "Who's got the Pandorica?" Answer: I do. Next question: Who's coming to take it from me? Come on! Look at me! No plan, no back-up, no weapons worth a damn! Oh, and something else, I don't have anything to lose! So, if you're sitting up there in your silly little spaceship with all your silly little guns, and you've got any plans on taking the Pandorica tonight, just remember who's standing in your way! Remember every black day I ever stopped you, and then, and then, do the smart thing: Let somebody else try first.

  Matt Smith

  Smart, Silly, Gun

  "Fictional character: The Doctor". TV Series "Doctor Who" ("The Pandorica Opens", 2010), (2005- ).

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• When I think about my Glamazon, would that character get down if someone said her thighs were heavy? No, she knows what other people think is none of her damn business.

  RuPaul

  Character, Thinking, People

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• The trouble with Adric was that from the beginning he was so damn complicated.

  Matthew Waterhouse

  Complicated, Trouble

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• What occurs to people when they read Kurt [Vonnegut] is that things are much more up for grabs than they thought they were. The world is a slightly different place just because they read a damn book. Imagine that.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Book, People, Different

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• Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life.Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes. In my worst moods, I think the best you can say is that a friend is anyone you don't despise.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Thinking, Years, Tests

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.55, Macmillan

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• We’re damn lucky to have our bodies, these strange, multi-functional machines, that let us leave our legacy on the planet.

  Evanna Lynch

  Legacy, Lucky, Machines

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• Don't be so damn hard on yourself. Yeah, you screwed up. You're not perfect, fine. Learn from it. But don't punish yourself. Be kind to you, even when you screw up. You'll bounce back eventually. You'll make up for it.

  Stephanie Klein

  Perfect, Screw Ups, Be Kind

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• Damn sure better win. That's all I can say.

  Larry Coker

  Winning, I Can

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• I don’t know much about history, and I wouldn’t give a nickel for all the history in the world. It means nothing to me. History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.

  Henry Ford

  Mean, History, Giving

  Interview with Charles N. Wheeler in 'Chicago Tribune' 25 May 1916

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• My advice is not to wait to be struck by an idea. If you're a writer, you sit down and damn well decide to have an idea. That's the way to get an idea.

  Andy Rooney

  Ideas, Advice, Waiting

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