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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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If I had to go into a battle and I needed someone loyal and courageous to cover my blindside, I know damn well Woody would be my man. I know, too, that God hasn't created a more generous, compassionate, or more understanding man than Woody Hayes.

Jack Tatum

Men, Understanding, Battle

Jack Tatum, Bill Kushner (1980). “They Call Me Assassin”, Avon Books

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The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.

Jaggi Vasudev

Stupid People, Intelligence, Idiot

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The hunger will give you everything and it will take from you, everything. It will cost you your life, and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it. But knowing this, of course, is what ultimately sets you free.

Hugh Jackman

Knowing, Giving, Cost

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If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk.
If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race.

Bill Cosby

Fall, Men, Race

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You can go left, you can go right, I don't give a damn. Just make a decision.

Aaron Eckhart

Giving, Decision, Left

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To a student: Dear Miss - I have read about sixteen pages of your manuscript . . . I suffered exactly the same treatment at the hands of my teachers who disliked me for my independence and passed over me when they wanted assistants. . . . Keep your manuscript for your sons and daughters, in order that they may derive consolation from it and not give a damn for what their teachers tell them or think of them. . . . There is too much education altogether.

Albert Einstein

Daughter, Teacher, Son

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I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.

Elia Kazan

Acting, Dollars, Nasty

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I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.

Bob Weir

Workout, Mean, Exercise

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What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.

Lenny Bruce

Truth, Lying, Next Week

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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn.

Joss Whedon

Two, People, Ironic

Bronze Beta web message board, www.cise.ufl.edu. February 14, 2004.

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It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.

Erle Stanley Gardner

Writing, Stories, Checks

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Here's to us, who's like us Damn few, and they're all dead.

Robert Burns

Military

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Women are damn resilient.

Jill Abramson

Empowering, Empowering Women, Resilient

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What do I advise? Forget it all. Don't be afraid. Do what you get the most pleasure from. Is it to build a cloud chamber? Then go on doing things like that. Develop your talents wherever they may lead. Damn the torpedoes - full speed ahead!If you have any talent,or any occupation that delights you,do it, and do it to the hilt

Richard P. Feynman

Clouds, Delight, Goes On

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Good reading makes for damn hard writing.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Reading, Writing, Hard

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The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists; they're too damn greedy.

Herbert Hoover

Conservative, Trouble, Greedy

Herbert Hoover, Ruth Dennis (1995). “The Wit and Wisdom of Herbert Hoover: A Compilation of Many of His Quotations”, Vantage Pr

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I'm no genius, but I'm a damn good football coach.

Bear Bryant

Football, Genius, Coaches

Paul Bear Bryant, John Underwood (2007). “Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant”, p.1898, Triumph Books

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I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out.

David Antin

Dog, Giving, Stories

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All art is propaganda...I do not care a damn, for any art that is not used for propaganda.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Art, Care, Propaganda

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It ain't that I'm too big to listen to the rumors, It's just that I'm too damn big to pay attention to 'em.

Dr. Dre

Rumor, Attention, Ems

Song: What's the Difference

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When I say or do something I do it, I don't give a damn what you think, I'm doing this for me.

Eminem

Thinking, Giving, Don't Give A Damn

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One will never get any more than he thinks he can get. YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES. Look back and see your progress - damn the torpedo, full speed ahead!

Bruce Lee

Thinking, Mma, Progress

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Letters of the Dragon: An Anthology of Bruce Lee's Correspondence with Family, Friends, and Fans 1958-1973”, Tuttle Publishing

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You can see the cruelest part of the world, the cruelest part. But then on the other side, you see the most beautiful part. Do you know? It's like you go from one extreme to the next. And they're both worth it because you wouldn't see the one without the other one. But that cruel part is damn cruel and you'll never forget it. But that heaven is heaven.

Britney Spears

Beautiful, Heaven, World

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Some days are born ugly. From the very first light they are no damn good what ever the weather, and everbody knows it. No one knows what causes this, but on such a day people resist getting out of bed and set their heels against the day. When they are finally forced out by hunger or job they find that the day is just as lousy as they knew it would be.

John Steinbeck

Jobs, Light, Weather

John Steinbeck (2008). “Sweet Thursday”, p.131, Penguin

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