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Hell Quotes



"I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?"


"If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?"



"In Houston everyone owns guns and uses 'em - sometimes just for the hell of it."



"Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss."
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"Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person."
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"From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it."


"I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully."



"Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against."


"In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime."


"Whiskey is all right in its place - but its place is hell."


"Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?"
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"We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hell of an ad.'"



"We need to drive like hell and get to the hills before the winter sets in."


"I spent two weeks prancing around a studio in Queens in my underwear with nine other guys. They were long days. But what the hell, it was Calvin Klein."
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"I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck."
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"It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you."


"Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedy long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any."



"He fashioned hell for the inquisitive."


"I think a guy who's had just the right amount of booze can sing the blues a hell of a lot better than a guy who is stone sober."


"And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians."



"I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences."
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"Pat O'Brien knows nothing. He's on the Hell express."


"On the subject of Osama bin Laden... we will track him down. We will capture him. We will bring him to justice, and I will follow him to the gates of hell."


"Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!"


"Why did they do it? Beats the hell out of me. I was just a scared kid from Kentucky, and these guys had been up in the majors for a while. I guess it was because I was just such a helluva nice kid - if you'll accept that."


"Publicity gets more than a little tiring. You want it, you need it, you crave it, and you're scared as hell when it stops."
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