Call Me Quotes - Page 18

• When Steve Ballmer calls me wacko, I consider that a compliment.

  Scott McNealy

  Compliment

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• Don't call me an icon. I'm just a mother trying to help.

  Princess Diana

  Mother, Names, Icons

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• Every time somebody calls me out or tries to start something, it's motivation.

  Ryan Sheckler

  Motivation, Trying

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• President Obama said that over 40 countries have offered to help the U.S. fight ISIS. Of course they said it the same way your friends do when they promise to help you move. 'Yeah just call me, you know, if I'm around. It'll be fun.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Country, Fun, Moving

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• You can call me an older woman - I don't mind that at all - just don't call me an old one, because I'm not.

  Doris Roberts

  Mind, Older Women

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• It does get frustrating having the cameras on you all the time, because if you make mistakes, then the whole world knows about it. Like, it's not just your family and friends, it's everyone. Sometimes I'll watch myself on TV and ask myself, What am I doing, I am the biggest geek. My friends will call me and say, "OMG. Have you seen that commercial of you, you look like such a nerd."

  Miley Cyrus

  Mistake, Nerd, Family And Friends

  "Talking to Miley". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. January 3, 2008.

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• People call me for interviews on censorship type topics all the time, like that Gannette interview.I don't hold myself out to be an authority on it, but the reason they call me is that they know that I'll at least open my mouth, and give an opinion, whereas other people will play it safe, and won't say anything, because they don't want to offend anybody.

  Frank Zappa

  Play, People, Giving

  Source: afka.net

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• Did Mad freakin' Max just call me irritating?

  Joe Pesci

  Mad, Max, Irritated

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• I came in at half past eleven. Since then I have been sitting in an easy chair like a fool. I could do nothing. I hear nothing but your voice. I am like a fool hearing you call me 'Dear.' I offended two men today by leaving them coolly. I wanted to hear your voice, not theirs. When I am with you I leave aside my contemptuous, suspicious nature. I wish I felt your head on my shoulder.

  James Joyce

  Past, Men, Two

  James Joyce (1976). “Selected letters of James Joyce”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I have no control over what people call me. The only thing I have control over is my work, and that's really all I can be judged on.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  People, I Can, Judged

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you don't have an idea that materializes and changes a person's life, then what have you got? You have talk, research, telephone calls, meetings, but you don't have a change in the community.

  Eunice Kennedy Shriver

  Ideas, Community, Research

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• One of the things I had to really wrap my head around is I have no control over what people call me: advocate, activist, gay, Filipino, undocumented person, gay person with an Asian face and Latino name.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  Gay, Names, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I keep 3 hos but don't call me Santa And I'm and I'm flyer than reindeers in winter

  Nicki Minaj

  Winter, Santa, Bragging

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• When people call me illegal, calling me illegal says more about you than it does about me.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  People, Doe, Calling

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Archie Bunker used to call me 'the laziest white kid he'd ever met.'

  Norman Lear

  Kids, White, Used

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Art is fantastic, but it's also that you come to Paris, you call me, I come to New York, I come to visit you, we hang out together, and that's art.

  Patrick Seguin

  Art, New York, Visits You

  "A Collector’s Carte Blanche". Interview With Nate Lowman, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 21, 2016.

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• Is it more important that you, as a white male, read my work and learn from it, or what you call me? I think it's more important that you read my work, reflect on it, and allow it to transform your life and your thinking in some way.

  Bell Hooks

  Thinking, White, Important

  Source: nefac.net

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• I hate that blacks and Hispanics are pitted against each other I really do, call me naive, I grew up in an adopted family where my mom is Christian and Caucasian, my dad is Jewish, my sister is Mexican and I don't know, I don't tan so well. I think I'm mostly Irish.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Christian, Mom, Dad

  Source: latinalista.com

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• The church is not meant to call men and women out of the world into a safe religious enclave but to call them out in order to send them back as agents of God's kingship.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Religious, Men, Order

  Lesslie Newbigin (1988). “Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture”, p.122, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I explain to everyone I deal with-co-workers, children, friends-that I'm transitionally challenged and they should call me on my cell phone if I'm even a few minutes late. Such calls often come in when I'm happily writing or rearranging the furniture. The monochrones in my life are so organized, they have no trouble remembering to remind me to show up.

  Martha Beck

  Children, Writing, Phones

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• I've had people call me from bands that are very popular, and they're like, "What do we do? We want to do what you do." It's almost impossible to do what I do, because you would have to start in 1980. You can't just do it.

  Ian MacKaye

  People, Band, Want

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. May 5, 1999.

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• If you believe you are the beloved of God, you need to spend time listening to his voice - period! You can't say, "Yes God calls me the beloved, but I have to go out to do something now."

  Henri Nouwen

  Believe, Voice, Listening

  Source: www.liguorian.org

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• Well, hello. My name is Lin. But if you're dyslexic, call me Nil.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Names, Hello, Wells

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Can you accuse me, if a man is putting a rope around my neck, of being violent, when I violently struggle against this lyncher to try and keep him from putting a rope around my innocent neck? Why, you'd be insane to cause me - to call me violent.

  Malcolm X

  Struggle, Men, Insane

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• I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mother, Brother, Father

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.22, Coyote Canyon Press

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