
“You're right. I am crazy. But you know what else? I don't care.”
A collection of quotes on the topic of care, doing, people, use.
“You're right. I am crazy. But you know what else? I don't care.”
“They don't really care about us.”
They Don't Care About Us
HIStory: Past, Present & Future, Book I (1995)
“I don't care that they stole my idea.. I care that they don't have any of their own”
[BBC Sport, Cristiano Ronaldo: I'm the best player in the world, 5 November 2015, 4 February 2018, http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/34737914]
In an interview with the BBC ahead of the release of Ronaldo.
“I don't care what you think unless it is about me.”
Variant: I don't care what you think unless it is about me
“Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.”
Other
“You gotta be careful: don't say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever.”
“Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.”
Also: "Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner"
Also: "If you care what people think, you will always be their prisoner"
Appears in Stephen Mitchell's rendering into English http://terebess.hu/english/tao/mitchell.html#Kap09 of Tao Te Ching chapter 9; but this is an interpretation of Mitchell's which does not appear in the original text or other recognized English translations. Repeated without attribution in Gilliland, Hide Your Goat https://books.google.com/books?id=ziJQdUzCgTIC&pg=PT98&dq=Care+what+other+think+%22you+will+always+be%22+their+prisoner&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDQQ6AEwBGoVChMIpsbNzO69yAIVCU2ICh0mXwIE#v=onepage&q=Care%20what%20other%20think%20%22you%20will%20always%20be%22%20their%20prisoner&f=false, a positive thinking book published in 2013.
Misattributed
When asked why she doesn't swallow her saliva very often after being asked if she was sick and she said she wasn't.
“When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.”
Reported in Patti Denys, Mary Holmes, Animal Magnetism: At Home With Celebrities & Their Animal Companions (1998), p. 106
Source: Jane Goodall: 40 Years at Gombe
Source: The Last Messiah (1933), To Be a Human Being https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4m6vvaY-Wo&t=1110s (1989–90)
“I win because I learned years ago that scared money always loses. I never care, so I win.”
Popcorn in Paradise (1980)
Jeanne's warning to Bishop Cauchon (15 March 1431)
Trial records (1431)
Context: You say that you are my judge. I do not know if you are! But I tell you that you must take good care not to judge me wrongly, because you will put yourself in great danger. I warn you, so that if God punishes you for it, I would have done my duty by telling you!
"Ocean Eyes" — though her breakthrough hit after she posted her performance of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d--DyK0wtYo to SoundCloud for her dance teacher on 18 November 2015, the lyrics were written entirely by her brother Finneas O'Connell, who also collaborates with her on most of her other musical work. · Official Music Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viimfQi_pUw
Misattributed
"everything i wanted" · First live performance, Mexico City (12 December 2019) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgdG91aCsPU
Singles (2017 - )
“If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.”
“I don't care If I go to hell as long as the people I serve will live in paradise.”
"Duterte: Look ma, cheap shoes no socks" http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/710288/duterte-simple-lifestyle-has-served-me-well-in-govt' (August 5 2015)
Big Girls Cry, 1000 Forms of Fear (2014). Cowritten with Christopher Braide
Songs
“Facts don't care about your feelings.”
Twitter https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/695638866993115136, ; , quoted in * 2018-07-13 These facts don’t care about Ben Shapiro’s feelings Frank Dale ThinkProgress
https://archive.thinkprogress.org/ben-shapiro-facts-dont-care-about-feelings-daily-wire-trump-conservative-hypocrisy-99ecd0a7940d/ 2020-03-12
2016
“George Bush doesn't care about black people.”
Live on NBC’s “A Concert for Hurricane Relief“ on September 2 2005
Colin Powell in My American Journey (1995)
Misattributed
1990s, Letter to the Union-Sun & Journal (1992)
On why he shaved his head in 1993 ** Interview with Details Magazine, December 1996 https://pitchfork.com/features/article/10081-chris-cornell-searching-for-solitude/,
Soundgarden Era
“Be who you want to be and not care about what others think.”
to Michael Azerrad in an interview from 1992 or 1993, in Kurt Cobain: About a Son
Interviews (1989-1994), Video
“Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.”
Statement of advice on being presented the Radcliffe Medal, as quoted in "Honoring Ruth Bader Ginsburg" by Colleen Walsh, in The Harvard Gazette (29 May 2015) https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/05/honoring-ruth-bader-ginsburg/
2010s
“I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.”
Variant: I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.
“Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.”
Variant: Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.
Source: The Art of Money Getting; Or, Golden Rules for Making Money
“The best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment.”
Source: Living Buddha, Living Christ
“People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care”
Variant: No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care
On the secret of his success - "TB Joshua - How To Celebrate My 50th Birthday" https://www.nigeriafilms.com/more/127-columnists/20001-tb-joshua-how-to-celebrate-my-50th-birthday Nigeria Films (June 10 2013)
Letter (1811-05-31) referring to the Peninsular War [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters
During a party after municipal elections ( video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaRxCHXuoLA) (19 March 2014), quoted in Aljazeera: Dutch far-right in crisis over Wilders chant (22 March 2014) http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2014/03/dutch-far-right-crisis-over-wilders-chant-2014322143319384578.html
2010s
Mansel, Philip, Constantinople: city of the world's desire 1453-1924 (1995), p. 84
Written to his wife - see the article Hurrem for another translation of this verse.
Poetry
“Let us ease the Roman people of their continual care, who think it long to await the death of an old man.”
Liberemus diuturna cura populum Romanum, quando mortem senis exspectare longum censent. (Latin, not original language)
Last words according to Livy "ab urbe condita", Book XXXIX, 51.
First Memoir.
The Mechanical Theory of Heat (1867)
2016, Is Truth Becoming Irrelevant to Conservatives? (December 5, 2016)
The "Burke quote" she uses here is a common but disputed attribution.
UN Speech on the HeForShe campaign (2014)
Context: You might be thinking who is this Harry Potter girl? And what is she doing speaking at the UN. And it’s a really good question. I've been asking myself the same thing. All I know is that I care about this problem. And I want to make it better.
And having seen what I’ve seen — and given the chance — I feel it is my responsibility to say something. Statesman Edmund Burke said: “All that is needed for the forces of evil to triumph is for good men and women to do nothing.”
In my nervousness for this speech and in my moments of doubt I’ve told myself firmly — if not me, who, if not now, when. If you have similar doubts when opportunities are presented to you I hope that those words might be helpful.
“To be human is to care for your fellow human beings and protecting the environment.”
“You'd be surprised if you knew some of the fellows I've got to take care of.”
Source: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/14108295.alexis_karpouzos?page=2
“Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.”
“Opinions are like orgasms… mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.”
Source: Facing the Music And Living To Talk About It
Source: Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh: 365 days of practical, powerful teachings from the beloved Zen teacher
“The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”
Source: The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future
“We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.”
Source: Life, the Universe and Everything
“The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care”
Source: Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936), Ch. 1
Source: Why I Write
Context: Money, once again; all is money. All human relationships must be purchased with money. If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters. And how right they are, after all! For, moneyless, you are unlovable. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels. But then, if I haven't money, I DON'T speak with the tongues of men and of angels.
“If I had known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself!”
Book II, Ch. 16
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