Call Me Quotes - Page 23

• It's what I call "mental masturbation", when you engage is some pointless intellectual exercise that has no possible meaning.

  Linus Torvalds

  Exercise, Intellectual, Masturbation

  "Linus Torvalds: Geek of the Week" by Richard Morris, www.red-gate.com. July 17, 2008.

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• People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself.

  Edgar Degas

  People, Dancer, Wish

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• I can usually sense that a leading is from the Holy Spirit when it calls me to humble myself, serve somebody, encourage somebody or give something away. Very rarely will the evil one lead us to do those kinds of things.

  Bill Hybels

  Humble, Giving, Evil

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• She says I am not fair, that I lack manners;
  She calls me proud, and that she could not love me,
  Were man as rare as Phoenix.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Phoenix, Proud

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English”, p.2682, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I've always really just liked football, and I've always devoted a lot of time to it. When I was a kid, my friends would call me to go out with them, but I would stay home because I had practice the next day. I like going out, but you have to know when you can and when you can't.

  Lionel Messi

  Football, Home, Kids

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• I think most actors are shy. I really do. The greatest actors can disappear. I had friends call me the Blend-In Man.

  Rip Torn

  Friends, Men, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there's a good possibility that love is what I'd call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Love, Together, Radiation

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• My daughter refuses to call me mother in public; my little grandson calls me Spongeslob Squarebottom, and nobody else ever calls me at all.

  Joan Rivers

  Daughter, Mother, Littles

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• When you are trying to get a shot, you can't be pleasing everybody. And I tend to be sort of collaborative and a bit of a pleaser. And when I'm directing, people just sort of call me Black Hat Gabriela. Because suddenly they're like, "What happened to you?" Because I stop listening. And I feel strident. I feel rude. And I feel un-collaborative.

  Liz W. Garcia

  People, Rude, Black

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Call me any name you like I will never deny it.

  Bob Dylan

  Names, Deny

  Song: Farewell, Angelina

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• People call me all sorts of things. I don't even care what they call me.

  James Frey

  People, Care

  Interview with Toby Litt, tobylitt.wordpress.com. August 1, 2008.

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• I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye.

  Robert Frost

  Bye, Feet, House

  Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

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• I was also lucky to play for an owner, Bud Selig, who truly cared about his players. He'd call me into his office once in a while when he knew things weren't going so well. And it's funny. Every time I left there I always felt like something good was about to happen.

  Robin Yount

  Sports, Time, Player

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• I want the scripts Leonardo DiCaprio doesn't have time for. Joseph Gordon-Levitt isn't available? Call me.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Want, Scripts, Leonardo

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• I don't know if I'm an impressionist or an expressionist. You can call me an American first... I've been labeled doing neimanism, so that's what it is, I guess.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Style, Firsts, Knows

  "LeRoy Neiman dies aged 91", www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2012.

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• My friends sometimes call me "Alamanci" (Turkish for German) But it actually doesn't matter to me. I would more likely consider myself a Turkish person who grew up in Germany.

  Tarkan

  Germany, Matter, Sometimes

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If we want to avoid a clash of cultures - and the jury is still out on whether we can - we'll have to make different cultures and religions compatible with the universal nature of human rights and tolerance. But I can promise you this: Anyone who calls me an infidel at the conference will be in for a fight.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Fighting, Rights, Tolerance

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• My credit card company calls me if it looks like I've bought too many hoodies and cargo pants for my kid at Old Navy.

  Christy Lemire

  Kids, Navy, Hoodies

  "Review: 'Identity Thief' has no charge" by Christy Lemire, www.yahoo.com. February 8, 2013.

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• To call me a partisan hack is ludicrous. [...] I am the least partisan person I know.

  Tucker Carlson

  Partisans, Persons, Knows

  "State Of The Union With John King". Reliable Sources with Howard Kurtz, transcripts.cnn.com. March 15, 2009.

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• My co-stars call me selfish. They say you are only interested in yourself and what you are only interested is yourself and what you are doing in front of the camera. I reply, I can't help it; it's what got me where I am.

  Kareena Kapoor

  Stars, Selfish, Cameras

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

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• Wheat Thins? Call me when they're Wheat THICKS! Gimme that wheat!

  Harris Wittels

  Wheat

  Twitter post from Aug 10, 2011

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• Most people call me Mercy. I like it

  Mercedes McCambridge

  People, Mercy

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Cause see they call me a menace; and if the shoe fits I'll wear it.

  Eminem

  Funny, Shoes, Causes

  "Renegade". Song by Eminem and Jay-Z, 2006.

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• Call me an alarmist, but there are certain words I don't like to hear together: cheap fireplace, discount brakes, cut-rate surgery.

  Margo Kaufman

  Cutting, Together, Fireplaces

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• The Spirit calls me, and I must go.

  Sojourner Truth

  Spirit

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