Don't Give A Damn Quotes - Page 3

• Poor white people and poor black people just don't know how much they have in common. Rich people don't give a damn about either group.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, White, People

  Charles Barkley (2002). “I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It”, p.34, Random House

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• I don't how anybody taller than 6-4 can sit in those seats. And the airline executives don't give a damn 'cause they never walk back there in the first place. I don't fly first class because I have a lot of money. I do it because I need the room.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Class, Giving

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• I want everything we do to be beautiful. I don't give a damn whether the client understands that that's worth anything, or that the client thinks it's worth anything, or whether it is worth anything. It's worth it to me. It's the way I want to live my life. I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares.

  Saul Bass

  Beautiful, Thinking, Giving

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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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• The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.

  Imelda Marcos

  People, Giving, Justice

  "Queen of the islands". Interview with Jonathan Watts, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2006.

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• As a personal matter I don't give a damn where mosques, churches, temples or other religious shrines and symbols are built as long as they don't tear down decent saloons in the process.

  Bob Higgins

  Religious, Long, Common Sense

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• When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.

  Maurice de Vlaminck

  Hands, Umpires, People

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• I believe in destiny...what's going to be is going to be. If I'm going to win, I'm going to win...I don't give a damn what the other guy shoots. I'm going to win if it's my turn.

  Sam Snead

  Believe, Golf, Winning

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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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• The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

  Agatha Christie

  Winning, People, Giving

  Agatha Christie (1989). “Remembered death”, Free Press

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• I don't know what they'll say when I die. I don't give a damn, but they'll probably cry.

  Marcel Carne

  Umpires, Giving, Cry

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• I'm worried about privacy because of the young people who don't give a damn about their privacy, who are prepared to put their entire private lives online. They put stuff on Facebook that 15 years from now will prevent them from getting the jobs they want. They don't understand that they are mortgaging their future for a quick laugh from a friend.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Jobs, Years, People

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• Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.

  Edith Piaf

  Law, People, Giving

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• I don't give a damn if I go to hell. I love you Satan. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Love You, Giving, Good Intentions

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• I don't give a damn what queers do, and don't give a damn what Christians do. Just get the hell out of my way because I want to live my life and I don't want the government sucking 60% of my wages off my ass.

  Alex Jones

  Christian, Government, Giving

  Source: www.dailykos.com

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• Several weeks of summer vacation in the Thirties I spent working at $15 a week in the FORBES office.... I worked in the mail cage, where envelopes were slit and subscription payments extracted. Dad used to come pounding down the office aisle and pause long enough to ask, How much today? Inevitably the answer was inadequate-except once. That day the controller said excitedly, Mr. Forbes, the ledger shows a slight profit this month! ... My father turned to him and said, Young man, I don't give a damn what your books show. Do we have any money in the bank?

  Malcolm Forbes

  Summer, Dad, Father

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• I don't give a damn how you feel about me, I sip lean pure codeine and I don't give a damn what you say about me.

  Gucci Mane

  Giving, How You Feel, Codeine

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• A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader is important to me. I don't give a damn for the group, the community, the masses, and so forth.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Giving, Community

  'Strong Opinions' (1973) p. 33

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• Too many poets act like a middle-aged mother trying to get her kids to eat too much cooked meat, and potatoes with drippings (tears). I don't give a damn whether they eat or not. Forced feeding leads to excessive thinness (effete). Nobody should experience anything they don't need to, if they don't need poetry bully for them. I like the movies too. And after all, only Whitman and Crane and Williams, of the American poets, are better than the movies.

  Frank O'Hara

  Mother, Kids, Giving

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• I don't bother so much about the others' songs. For instance, I don't give a damn about how 'Something' is doing in the charts - I watch 'Come Together' (the flip side) because that's my song.

  John Lennon

  Music, Song, Giving

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• I don't give a damn if I go to hell.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Giving, Hell, Damn

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• Every console, I don't give a damn if it's analog or digital-hell, every mixing situation today-is the brainchild of Bill Putnam.

  Bruce Swedien

  Giving, Today, Digital

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• Elephants are living treasures. Nature's gardeners. Nature's great teachers. Tragically some people don't give a damn. They prefer the dead treasure to the living one. The ivory. We must challenge this so-called 'trade' with all our might and shame on those who would condone it.

  Virginia McKenna

  Teacher, Elephants, Ivory

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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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• When you make love you're using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don't give a damn for anything. They can't bear you to feel like that. They want you to be bursting with energy all the time. All this marching up and down and cheering and waving flags is simply sex gone sour. If you're happy inside yourself, why should you get excited about Big Brother and the Three-Year Plans and the Two Minutes Hate and all the rest of their bloody rot?

  George Orwell

  Brother, Sex, Cheer

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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