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They say you shouldn't say nothin' about the dead unless it's good. He's dead. Good!
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   You ain't nothin' but a hound dog cryin'all the time. You ain't nothin' but a hound dog cryin'all the time. Well, you ain't never caught a rabbit and you ain't no friend of mine.


— 1956  'Hound Dog' (written byJerry Leiber and Mike Stoller).

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A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain't got nothin'.

leo burnett

— As quoted in Street-Smart Advertising: How to Win the Battle of the Buzz (2006) by Margo Berman, p. 95

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Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I’d take Scotch. It’s the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find.

william faulkner

— As quoted in National Observer (3 February 1964).

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Some folks can look so busy doin' nothin' that they seem indispensable.

kin hubbard

— As quoted in Saturday Review? (18 March 1944), p. 19
— Variant: Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.

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I had some brand new shoes They were all red but they gave me the blues And they're runnin' away, they left me a letter It's just like you told me it'd be It's nothin' nothin' nothin' nothin' at all

zooey deschanel

— "Brand New Shoes"

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No, never say nothin' without you're compelled tu, An' then don't say nothin' thet you can be held tu.

james russell lowell

— No. 2.

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No, never say nothin' without you're compelled tu, An' then don't say nothin' thet you can be held tu.

james russell lowell

— No. 5. (Series II (1866))

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Ez to my princerples, I glory In hevin' nothin' o' the sort.

james russell lowell

— No. vii. (The Biglow Papers. First Series.)

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But ain't dyin' terrorsome cold if there ain't nothin' after? Yay --she sort o' laughed but not smilin', nay-- our truth is terrorsome cold.

david mitchell

— "Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After", p. 269 (Nook edition)

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The street's on fire in a real death waltz Between what's flesh and what's fantasy Man, the poets down here don't write nothin' at all, They just stand back and let it all be

Bruce Springsteen

— "Jungleland"

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So I bought a .44 magnum it was solid steel cast And in the blessed name of Elvis well I just let it blast 'Til my TV lay in pieces there at my feet And they busted me for disturbin' the almighty peace. Judge said "What you got in your defense son?" "Fifty-seven channels and nothin' on" I can see by your eyes friend you're just about gone Fifty-seven channels and nothin' on.

Bruce Springsteen

— "57 Channels (And Nothin' On)"

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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.

larry wall

— Usenet article (1992)

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Ain't nothin' better, We beat the odds together. I'm glad we didn't listen, Look at what we would be missin': They said "I bet they'll never make it", But just look at us holdin' on. We're still together still goin' strong.

Shania Twain

— "You're Still the One" (1998)

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You're not a lady! You're nothin' but a sister!

Toulouse and Berlioz

— "The Aristocats" (1970), said to Marie.

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Dance is about saying something. If you ain’t got nothin' to say, get off the dance floor.


— LaVaughn Robinson, (June 22, 2002) at Plenary Session of the Society of Dance History Scholars, Philadelphia, PA. Taken from this source:
Huntington, Carla. Theorizing Hip Hop Dance. Hip Hop Dance: Meanings and Messages. p. 19. MacFarland & Co., 2007. ISBN 0-786-42991-7.

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(laughs) Not me, nothin' to worry about. Not me.


— Who: Paulie Gatto
— Note: Paulie says this after Clemenza says something to him in Italian (Clemenza asks Paulie if he farted in the car) while him, Rocco, and Clemenza joke around in the car. When they pull over for Clemenza to urinate on the side of the road, Rocco shoots him in the back of the head for betraying the Corleone Family.

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"I got a buzz bigger than a beehive, cough up my cookies let loose what's on the inside - the Tussin, the Tussin! put it down like it was nothin', Robocop couldn't stop me from pukin' and flushin', no balls to be bustin', no fightin', no cussin', just love for a drug called Robitussin !"


— mc chris, "The Tussin" (2001) (Drugs)

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Rents once sais, thirs nothin like a darker skin tone tae increase the vigilance ay the police n the magistrates: too right.

Irvine Welsh

— Spud, "Kicking Again: Na Na and Other Nazis" (Chapter 3, Story 2)

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Rents once sais, thirs nothin like a darker skin tone tae increase the vigilance ay the police n the magistrates: too right.


— Spud, "Kicking Again: Na Na and Other Nazis" (Chapter 3, Story 2)

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