give a shit
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But when I go after a rough night and don’t give a shit about how I look, people didn’t recognize me to talk to me.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2018
“It feeds right into the recruitment strategy of ISWAP, which is that the Nigerian government doesn’t give a shit about them,” says an aid worker.
From Economist ● Jul. 12, 2018
The whole food world is in tatters over this but so are my cousins who don’t give a shit about James Beard.
From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2018
“Not because of his achievements and success, but because of his will to give it everything and to come back and not to give a shit about what others are saying about him.”
From Reuters ● Feb. 9, 2018
But what we want is to be noticed by the universe, to have the universe give a shit what happens to us—not the collective idea of sentient life but each of us, as individuals.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
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