Call Me Quotes

• When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

  Hélder Câmara

  Motivational, Inspiring, Wisdom

  "Peace Behind Bars: A Peacemaking Priest's Journey from Jail". Book by Father John Dear, 1995.

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• Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I'm totally cool.

  Billy Joel

  Fool, Moments, Egotism

  Song: I Go To Extremes, Album: Storm Front, 1989

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• Just once I'd like someone to call me 'Sir' without adding 'You're making a scene.'

  Homer

  Scene

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• Just call me black, if you want to call me anything.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Black, Want, Ifs

  "The Daily Telegraph", April 20, 1998.

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• Call me Sunshine, pussy spread like the rainbow.

  Lil' Kim

  Sunshine, Rainbow, Pussy

  Song: Spend a Little Doe

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• Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.

  William Shakespeare

  Play, Important Hamlet, Instruments

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [393]

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• Feel free to call me by my first name: Master.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Names, Firsts, Masters

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• I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.

  Michael Graves

  People, Negative, Labels

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• Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale, and wholesale ecological destruction. Half of humanity goes to bed hungry because of all the realistic leaders in the world. I tell people who call me 'unrealistic' to show me what their realism has done. Realism is an outdated, overplayed and wholly exaggerated concept.

  Satish Kumar

  War, People, Leader

  "Soul man" by John Vidal, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2008.

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• Stay fly, you can call me Have a Safe Flight

  Nicki Minaj

  Safe, Flight, Bragging

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• I used to think there would be a blinding flash of light someday, and then I would be wise and calm and would know how to cope with everything and my kids would rise up and call me blessed. Now I see that whatever I'm like, I'm pretty well stuck with it for life. Hell of a revelation that turned out to be.

  Margaret Laurence

  Wise, Blessed, Kids

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• People go to the movies to see things they haven’t seen before. Call me a radical.

  David Fincher

  People, Radical, Havens

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• I know success or failure in my life or ministry does not depend on my own skill or even on external circumstances, it depends only on my faithfulness. God will give me the gifts necessary to do whatever He calls me to do, and He will not be hindered in His work by circumstances.

  Lester Sumrall

  Skills, Giving, Doe

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• You can call me a lot of things, but you can't call me complacent!

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Complacent

  "Gwyneth Paltrow On Jay-Z: ‘I’ve Learned A Lot’ From The Rapper", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2013.

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• I'm an extremist? I don't think so. I think people that call me an extremist are extremely brain dead and soulless.

  Ted Nugent

  Thinking, People, Brain

  "More Than 10 Questions with Ted Nugent. The Man, His Views, His Music & The New Album ShutUp & Jam". Interview with Mark Capuano, music.allaccess.com. July 23, 2014.

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• I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day, and I will always defend their right to do so.

  Barack Obama

  Acceptance, Rights, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Novelists, Kind, Inherent

  "Life before loss". Interview with Sophie Harrison, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2008.

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• When I was a teenager, my dad used to call me 'Hollywood' because I wore sunglasses all the time, even at night. Cue song.

  Michael Weatherly

  Song, Dad, Teenager

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• Let them call me rebel, and welcome, I feel no concern from it.

  Thomas Paine

  Rebel, Revolutionary, Concern

  "Common Sense: and The American Crisis I".

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• When I want to talk to someone from Golden Boy, I make sure Richard calls me. Bosses talk to bosses.

  Adrien Broner

  Motivation, Boys, Boss

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• If you need somebody to dig up rocks eight hours a day underwater, call me.

  Leigh Newman

  Eight, Rocks, Underwater

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Some people call me a publicity hound.

  Joe Arpaio

  People, Publicity, Hounds

  "To-Do List: Curiosity Lands on Mars; Bolt Wins" by Nadine Zylberberg, www.newyorker.com. August 6, 2012.

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• Wherever I go for the military, they always call me Lt. Dan. They just can't help it.

  Gary Sinise

  Military, Helping

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Some people call me the unofficial mayor of Castro Street.

  Harvey Milk

  People, Mayors, Castro

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• Father calls me William, sister calls me Will, Mother calls me Willie, but the fellows call me Bill!.

  Eugene Field

  Mother, Father, Names

  Eugene Field, “Jest 'Fore Christmas”

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