November 25, 2009

“I Don’t Care” quotes – the Sexual Preferences Edition…


MRS. CAMPELL’S FAMOUS QUOTE:

“I don’t care what they do, so long as they don’t do it in the street and frighten the horses.”
      
Mrs. Patrick Campbell (Beatrice Campbell; 1865-1940)
       British actress
       The legendary quotation about homosexuals commonly attributed to her


DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL COUNTERQUOTE:

“I don’t care if a soldier is ‘straight’, as long as he can shoot straight.”
       Attributed to Barry Goldwater (1909-1998)
       The common paraphrase of a remark Goldwater made in 1993 
      
What he actually said: “You don’t need to be ‘straight’ to fight and die for your country.”


NUDGE NUDGE, WINK WINK QUOTE:

“I don’t care what they look like as long as they got big tits.”
       An anonymous cowboy character  
       In the novel The Carpetbaggers (1964), by
Harold Robbins


STRIPPER QUOTE:

“I don’t care what they say or do to me as long as they pay.”
       An anonymous stripper
       Quoted in The Sexual Scene (1970), by
John H. Gagnon


STRIP HER QUOTE:

“I don’t care what she has to say. She should just shut up and pose nude for Playboy.” 
       Comment posted by an anonymous reader on
Steve Sailer’s iSteve Blog
       Regarding Sarah Palin’s book, Going Rogue (2009)

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