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• You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it's all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Research, Littles, Lists

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• Football was never my life. The guys [and] the relationships were my life. I have an ability to relate to damn near everybody.

  John Riggins

  Football, Guy, Ability

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• Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's easily achieved. One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think about them.

  Diane Setterfield

  Nice, Ambition, Men

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

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• I would rather be hated every damn day of my life for being real than loved for being something I'm not.

  Aubrey O'Day

  Real, Being Real, Hated

  "Aubrey O'day And D. Woods Kicked Out Of Danity Kane, Diddy Announces" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. October 15, 2008.

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• Well, I've thought about donating, but they get so many damn donations already. I read about one foundation that raised over 100 million dollars. Well where the hell did that go? For all I know every starving child has a 2 story house by now. Or maybe they're all raging alcoholics, like homeless people. Homeless people who are more effective when it comes to raising money. Who wants to support alcoholic children? Not me.

  Zach Braff

  Children, People, House

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• If I wasn't an actor? Hmm, I'd probably be a serial killer. I'm just so damn likeable, no one would ever suspect me.

  Zach Braff

  Serial Killer, Actors, Killers

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• Damn flowers. Nice kids, the ones who skated out and gave us them. But the flowers, the stem fell off. I stepped right on it and was on my ass in a flash. Must have looked good, huh? A hundred million guys watching all around the world, brass bands playing, the Russian cats in the stands, and here I am dumped on the ice. So I waved to the folks back home inthe Soo, a wave from the dummy with egg on his face.

  Phil Esposito

  Nice, Flower, Home

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• You see, to me, it doesnt really matter if an elected official has a D or an R behind her name, or his name. I honestly dont give a damn about who belongs to either political party.

  Richard Trumka

  Party, Names, Giving

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• I have searched everywhere to find an answer to my question, 'Is there enlightenment?' but have never questioned the search itself. Because I have assumed that goal of enlightenment exists, I have had to search. It is the search itself which has been choking me and keeping me out of my natural state. There is no such thing as spiritual or psychological enlightenment because there is no such thing as spirit or psyche at all. I have been a damn fool all my life, searching for something which does not exist. My search is at an end.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Goal, Enlightenment

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• A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs th' effect of fire. Thither by harpy-footed Furies hal'd, At certain revolutions all the damn'd Are brought, and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes,-extremes by change more fierce; From beds of raging fire to starve in ice Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine Immovable, infix'd, and frozen round, Periods of time; thence hurried back to fire.

  John Milton

  Time, Army, Ice

  John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 02”

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• Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Way, Poor, Quicksand

  Letters to Guy Moyston, August 25, 1924 and July 11, 1925.

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• It doesn't matter what one reveals or what one keeps to oneself. Everything we do, everything we are, rests on our personal power. If we don't have enough personal power the most magnificent piece of wisdom can be revealed to us and it won't make a damn bit of difference.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Differences, Words Of Wisdom, Pieces

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• 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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• Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?

  Simon Bolivar

  Alaska, Labyrinth, Bedtime

  Simon Bolivar's statement made in the last months of his life, occasionally said to be his last words; quoted in Gabriel Garcia Marquez "The General in His Labyrinth" (p. 267), 1990.

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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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• 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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• I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you.

  Jean Shepherd

  White, Cost, Ridiculous

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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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• 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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• All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.

  Douglas Adams

  Positive, Thinking, Needs

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Mostly Harmless”, p.118, Pan Macmillan

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• They're a damn nuisance - I've got one in my bathroom and every time I run my bath the steam sets it off.

  Prince Philip

  Running, Nuisance, Baths

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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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