
“I don't give a damn about what people say. They can be reptile food for all I care.”
Source: Dance Dance Dance
I Don't Know One Editor In India Who Is Well-Read
“I don't give a damn about what people say. They can be reptile food for all I care.”
Source: Dance Dance Dance
“[I don't] care a twopenny damn what [becomes] of the ashes of Napoleon Bonaparte.”
As quoted in The Times [London] (9 October 1944); this attribution probably originates in a letter by Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (6 March 1849), in which he states "How they settle the matter I care not, as the duke says, one twopenny damn."
Disputed
“I don't care what people think about me, I care what they think about themselves.”
FUSE Lady Gaga: On The Record (Part 1) HQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiYM-OzG6yw
Being with You (1981)
Song lyrics, Solo
The Ethics of Belief (1877), The Duty of Inquiry
Context: The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs. Habitual want of care about what I believe leads to habitual want of care in others about the truth of what is told to me. Men speak the truth of one another when each reveres the truth in his own mind and in the other's mind; but how shall my friend revere the truth in my mind when I myself am careless about it, when I believe thing because I want to believe them, and because they are comforting and pleasant? Will he not learn to cry, "Peace," to me, when there is no peace? By such a course I shall surround myself with a thick atmosphere of falsehood and fraud, and in that I must live. It may matter little to me, in my cloud-castle of sweet illusions and darling lies; but it matters much to Man that I have made my neighbours ready to deceive. The credulous man is father to the liar and the cheat; he lives in the bosom of this his family, and it is no marvel if he should become even as they are.
John Vogl (December 27, 2006) "No standing ovation for Ovechkin", The Buffalo News, p. D4.
“If I cared about what you thought, I'd be writing for National Geographic or something.”
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In conversation with Henry Kissinger regarding Vietnam, as quoted in Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers. (2002) by Daniel Ellsberg
2000s