When she married Larry Fortensky in 1991 after meeting him at the Betty Ford Clinic, I thought, yes, she's the kind of woman who doesn't give a damn what people think.

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Most importantly, Mr Ma professes not to give a damn what the Hong Kong government does, reinforcing China's promise to supervise in Hong Kong only matters of foreign affairs and defence.

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But small companies won't give a damn, if - like their German and US counterparts - they get access to loans that can't and won't be withdrawn as and when they and the economy catch another cold.

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Instead I suspect the majority no longer give a damn, which is almost certainly going to cause problems for their hopes of creating a long lasting (and profitable) franchise that could, potentially, have been almost as successful as Star Wars or Star Trek.

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He has another three years to go before graduating from high school, but I always like to remind him that his family and friends think the world of him -- and for the most part, just about everyone else on this planet doesn't give a damn about him.

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So the analyst who said the hoodie shows I-don't-give-a-damn attitude was right in one sense, but he was wrong to suggest Zuckerberg's hoodie was bad news for Facebook investors.

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We think we can get murders down twenty five percent, we think we can get serious crime down ten percent, we think we can get the reputation of this department back and if we think we can do a damn good job of preventing acts of terrorism in this city but give us that chance.

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