Top 100 Quotes About Giving Damn
#1. When I was in my studio I didn't give a damn what sex I was ... I thought art is art.
Alice Neel
#2. I think being central to the culture is overrated. Who really gives a damn if something is popular? Jay-Z isn't actually any better than James Joyce even though more people understand him.
Matthew Specktor
#3. I'd stopped giving a damn about the human world a long time ago. It's our basis. Our cradle. But we are Others. We walk through closed doors and we maintain the balance of Good and Evil. There are pitifully few of us, and we can't reproduce - it
Sergei Lukyanenko
#4. Who gives a damn about being remembered? That's really for amateurs.
Gore Vidal
#6. The French have a term for this brazenness: je m'en foutisme, the brave art of not giving a damn.
Mark Matousek
#7. There are two kinds of courage. There's the kind you get from knowing that what you're doing is right. And there's the kind you get from knowing its hopeless and wrong, and just not giving a damn.
Gareth L. Powell
#8. 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
#9. Feel no guilt. Getting married and giving birth does not mean that you have sold your life away to perfectly healthy people who can get their own damn socks.
Jennifer Crusie
#10. I don't give a damn what other people think. It's entirely their own business. I'm not writing for other people.
Harold Pinter
#11. We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about phytoplankton. All these tiny mechanisms provide the preconditions of our planetary life. To say we do not care is to say in the most literal sense that "we choose death."
Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth
#12. The trick is, as I know it, is to care like hell
and not give a damn at the same time.
Paul Simon
#13. 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
#14. [A knuckleball is] a curve ball that doesn't give a damn.
Jimmy Cannon
#15. 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
#16. Whenever I perform I try to connect with the crowd and give off energy so when they walk away from the show its remarkable and its something they talk about it, like 'damn I cant wait to come back to my show.'
G-Eazy
#18. And I don't give a damn about a greenback dollarSpend it fast as I can for a wailin' song and a good guitarThe only things that I understand, oh yeah.
Hoyt Axton
#19. Don't make a sound!" she whispered, giving me a little shake. "I need your help."
Damn! She had given the female password - spoken those magic words that stretched back through the mists of time to a bond made in some primordial swamp.
Alan Bradley
#20. In my 40s - when I was giving to the Red Cross, United Jewish Appeal and other charities - I said to myself, this is all well and good, but these are really amorphous things, and maybe there are some causes out there that I really give a damn about.
Charles Bronfman
#21. I as little fear that God will damn a person who has charity as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
Alexander Pope
#22. If people didn't give a damn, I wouldn't be in the position I'm in. I try not to lose sight of that.
Jared Fogle
#24. I don't believe in writers' block. Do doctors have 'doctors block?' Do plumbers have 'plumbers' block?" No. We all have days when we don't feel like working, but why do writers turn that into something so damn special by giving it a faintly romantic name.
Larry Kahaner
#25. Open the damn present, Sky. I know you hate getting gifts, but I love giving them, so stop being a depressing bitch and open it and love it and hug me and thank me.
Colleen Hoover
#26. The notion that the natural world obeys its own rules and doesn't give a damn about your expectations comes as a massive shock ... it will demand that you adapt to it
Michael Crichton
#27. We say grace and we say ma'am. If you ain't in to that, we don't give a damn.
Hank Williams Jr.
#28. My students sometimes ask: what is a fundamentalist? I give them a very simple definition. A fundamentalist is no fun, too much damn, and not enough mental.
Bart D. Ehrman
#29. For all filmmakers: True originality is the key, only direct your own unique movie scripts, be a megalomaniac and not give a damn.
Tom Six
#30. The biggest enemy of management is indifference. It's when people don't give a damn
Carlos Ghosn
#31. 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
#32. If I can remain excited about the music that I'm giving you, then you're damn sure going to be excited about it.
Alicia Keys
#33. I don't give a damn if you like Blackbeard. I don't care if you think he is an absolute despot. Do you believe me? If you do, I've done my work.
Ray Stevenson
#34. I learned from a very young age that no one owes you anything and nobody's gonna give you a damn thing. But you can have anything you want, if you work hard enough for it.
Branch Warren
#35. People are gonna believe what they want to believe And like I said before, I really don't give a damn.
Tonya Harding
#36. I don't take Hollywood too seriously. I have kids that don't give a damn about what I'm shooting, they just want dinner. So that keeps me grounded.
Reagan Gomez-Preston
#37. I don't give a damn about "The Missouri Waltz" but I can't say it out loud because it's the song of Missouri. It's as bad as "The Star-Spangled Banner" so far as music is concerned.
Harry S. Truman
#38. Do you know anything at all that nobody else knows or, for that matter, gives a damn about? If you do, then sit tight, because one of these days you're going to Hollywood as a technical supervisor on a million dollar movie.
S.J Perelman
#39. I'm my own toughest opponent. So I talk to myself. I curse at myself. I pump myself up. Whatever it takes to do. I don't really give a damn how it looks really because when I'm in the moment I need to be me.
Victoria Azarenka
#40. I swore I'd be in Chicago tomorrow, and made sure of that, taking a bus to Chicago, spending most of my money, and didn't give a damn, just as long as I'd be in Chicago tomorrow.
Jack Kerouac
#41. For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn.
H.G.Wells
#42. He might be damn good looking, but that didn't make up for kissing me not long after I caught a man giving him head. It just didn't. That's not the kind of woman I was. Men had to earn my kisses, not steal them.
Rachael Orman
#43. It is the duty of a woman to be obedient to her husband, and unless she is, I would not give a damn for all her queenly right and authority; nor for her either, if she will quarrel, and lie about the work of God and the principle of plurality.
Heber C. Kimball
#44. Practice like it means everything in the world to you. Perform like you don't give a damn.
Jascha Heifetz
#45. Life keeps changing without giving a damn about our personal feelings.
Kate Papas
#46. My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'
Edward Abbey
#47. 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
#48. Charm me into giving you the red M&Ms. They're my favorite.'
I looked Hades in the eyes. 'Give me the red M&Ms.'
'Still not good enough.'
'Give me the damn M&Ms,'I snapped.
He snickered. 'That wasn't very charming.
Kaitlin Bevis
#49. I don't give a damn about marriage. But I do care about honor.
Katharine Hepburn
#50. Sometimes we do not realize how many people give a damn until something horrible happens. And sometimes we realize that those who should give a damn, whom we counted on giving a damn, sometimes really don't
Monika Basile
#51. Giving a damn is seriously underrated and caring is a competitive advantage.
Bernadette Jiwa
#52. It evoked Picasso and Miles Davis for me - two great artists who totally indulged themselves in their work and who they were, but they certainly didn't give a damn what other people thought.
Rodney Crowell
#53. I don't give a damn what the fans think cause, quite frankly, I know what the fans want better than they do.
Vince McMahon
#54. Even Merrick Garland can't get up and give a press conference in which he says, "Give me a damn vote." We just hear silence.
Dahlia Lithwick
#55. Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan't make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this.
Vita Sackville-West
#56. I've never been sentimental about my horse.
The horse doesn't give a damn about you.
If you want to know the truth - horses are dumb.
Tim McCoy
#57. Don't give up.' Ilyas felt his eyes tear up.
'I'm not giving up. I'm taking precautions to protect the only person I really care about in this whole damn world.
Astrid Amara
#59. I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.
Leo Buscaglia
#60. The only place you and I disagree is with regard to the bombing. You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians, and I (in contrast) don't give a damn. I don't care." ... "I'd rather use the nuclear bomb ... Does that bother you? I just want you to think big.
Richard M. Nixon
#61. People can portray me anyway they want because I don't give a damn ... But don't you analyze me and don't you tell me what I am until you get close enough to understand what I am. Then you can make an analysis of me. But don't you dare do it until then.
Lyle Alzado
#62. Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn
Orson Welles
#63. I don't give a damn about my reputation. You're living in the past, it's a new generation.
Joan Jett
#64. Most people, when they reach a certain age, let down and talk about what they used to do. Well, who gives a damn about what you used to do? It's what you're doing now.
Jack LaLanne
#65. In them days I just as soon died
except for my harmonica. It was like a friend who didn't give a damn if I could see or not.
Sonny Terry
#67. All they get around here is stories. Stories don't make you bleed. Stories don't make you go hungry, don't give you sore feet. When you're young smelling of pigshit and convinced there ain't a weapon in all the damn world that's going to hurt you, all stories do is make you want to be part of them.
Steven Erikson
#68. There are two things you need if you are to uncover and communicate what is really happening in the world. One is to free of any dogmatic belief system. The second is not to give a damn what people think and say about you, or, at least, not to let that influence your decisions.
David Icke
#69. Maybe she should stop reading those damn romance novels. They were giving her crazy expectations.
Lexi Blake
#70. The open road is gone. The spontaneous stops and sometimes not knowing where we are but not giving a damn, is gone.
J.A. Redmerski
#71. I don't care about people kissing my ass or telling me how great I am. I don't really give a damn. I read the bad stuff a whole lot more than I read the good stuff. I read that because there are always going to be critics who are going to say how good you aren't.
Richard Sherman
#72. People don't give a damn about you and they don't give a damn about your story and they don't give a damn about your content. They only give a damn that you, your content, your story can bring value to them.
Larry Winget
#73. I'm giving you what I can give you, and I'm telling you in advance that you might get hurt. But it's worth it to take the risk. I can damn well promise you that it's worth it.
K.A. Linde
#74. To be rich is to give; to give nothing is to be poor; to live is to love; to love nothing is to be dead; to be happy is to devote oneself; to exist only for oneself is to damn oneself, and to exile oneself to hell.
Eliphas Levi
#75. She was the most precious thing in the world to him. So beautiful, so sweet, so giving and too damn good for him, but he was a selfish bastard and wouldn't let her go.
R.L. Mathewson
#76. It's amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about smog, oil leaks, the devastation of the environment with pesticides, hunger, disease. When the poor share some of the power that the affluent now monopolize, we will give a damn.
Cesar Chavez
#77. In engineering, people have a big margin of safety. But in the financial world, people don't give a damn about safety. They let it balloon and balloon and balloon. It's aided by false accounting.
Charlie Munger
#78. 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
#79. We love kitties, gawd bless their little whiskers, and we don't give a damn whether they or we are superior or inferior! They're confounded pretty, and that's all we know and all we need to know!
H.P. Lovecraft
#80. Judd figured he must have done something right along the way. How else could a rebel arrow have earned the right to call this amazing woman his own? Even if it was a mistake, too damn bad. He was never giving her up.
Nalini Singh
#81. Don't let loneliness
drive you back into
the arms of someone
who doesn't give a
damn about you.
Megan Fox
#82. My best advice is this - by the time you meet your Maker, and may it be a long, long time from now, I hope you can close your eyes on a life where you did your damn best and tried your damn hardest. It's not winning that's really winning. It's never giving up.
Robyn Carr
#83. By and large, life will give you what you deserve and it doesn't give a damn what you like. So it is up to you to take full responsibility to connect what you want with what you need to do to get it, and then to do those things.
Ray Dalio
#84. 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
#85. Basking in the light and glory that comes with not giving a damn.
Alice Oseman
#86. If God cares about our puny species, then disasters prove that he is not all-powerful; and if he is all-powerful, then clearly he doesn't give a damn.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#87. 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
#88. I work with deadlines. It is terrible to be an artist where you are just producing work and nobody gives a damn. Nobody wants to show it.
Robert Barry
#89. It had better be quirky or perverse or thoughtful enough so that you hit some chord in them. I mean we've all read pieces where we thought, 'Oh, who gives a damn.'
Nora Ephron
#90. If you fight for a living you can't give a damn about the opponent because they're trying to take food out of your mouth and your kids' mouths. You're in competition with everybody. The trick is, just don't let them know you're competing against them.
Gene LeBell
#91. A lot of people can be very scared about making themselves vulnerable and appearing uncool. I don't really give a damn; as long as it's funny, I'll do it [make fun of myself].
Steve Coogan
#92. Inconsistency is the bugbear of fools! I wouldn't give a damn for a fellow who couldn't change his mind with a change of conditions.
John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher
#93. You can go left, you can go right, I don't give a damn. Just make a decision.
Aaron Eckhart
#94. Ed Miliband doesn't give a damn about what he looks like, how he dresses. He came into politics to change society.
Ken Livingstone
#95. The money buys the drugs, the drugs work harder and harder to trick your blackened dopamine receptors into giving a damn about living. At some point you make a choice: fight your need the rest of your goddamned long-suffering life, or fill your need until it disappears into the grave with you.
Jeremy Robert Johnson
#97. Someday I'll fly
Someday I'll soar
Someday I'll be so damn much more
Cause I'm bigger than my body gives me credit for
John Mayer
#98. Isn't it wonderful when people do that, when you put all your faith in their being selfish and self -centered and not giving a damn and it turns out, all that time, you were wrong?
Joan Frances Turner
#99. I used to go into every fight not giving a damn if I walked away from it. Dying didn't mean shit.
Kit Rocha
#100. Do you know anybody under 25 that gives a damn whether you marry a man if you're a man or if you marry a woman if you're a woman? No.
Graham Nash
