Call Me Quotes - Page 36

• I mentioned that I was thinking of getting out of the business after Call Me Madam. I thought maybe I should become a homebody.

  Ethel Merman

  Business, Thinking, Should

  Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

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• I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope that it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mother, Brother, Father

  "Self-Reliance". Essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, en.wikisource.org. 1847.

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• My family has always called me 'Lay Lay,' and my dad used to always call me 'Dynamite Termite' because I was really short and small and I hated to be still. I would never stop.

  Lacey Chabert

  Dad, Really Short, My Family

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

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• If it's crazy to call for putting police and armed security in our school to protect our children, then call me crazy.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Children, Crazy, School

  "Would Armed Guards Make School Safer?". "Tell Me More" with Celeste Headlee, www.npr.org. December 26, 2012.

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• If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me.

  Karl Kraus

  Trust, Mean, Vain

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• It is out of reality that the most peculiar tale of all is born ... Some call me the Elder Granny, others - the Dryad, but my real name is Memory. It is I who sits on a tree that keeps on growing, and growing, it is I who reminisces and tells stories.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Memories, Real, Names

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• Each Fall the graves of my grandfathers call me, the brown
  hills and red gullies of mississippi send out their electric
  messages, galvanizing my genes.

  Etheridge Knight

  Fall, Grandfather, Red

  Etheridge Knight (1968). “Poems from prison”

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• One of my teachers used to call me Prince, because I always had a way of charming myself in and out of different situations.

  Will Smith

  Teacher, Different, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Friends call me Hitch. Maybe it can be turned into a 900-phone number. People would pay to talk to me.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Phones, Numbers, People

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Whenever people call me the first female this or that, it doesn't make it more special because no one in front of me wanted the same job. I've always wanted weird stuff and enjoyed things differently than other girls.

  Ronda Rousey

  Girl, Jobs, People

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Today, President Obama finally met with BP's CEO, Tony Hayward, but the meeting was only scheduled 20 minutes. Call me crazy, but I think it should take more time to discuss an oil spill than it does to get your oil checked.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Crazy, Thinking, Oil

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• My husband and I always have fun together in everything we do. Some people call me crazy, but the reality is that I enjoy spending each second with him. He is not just my husband - he is my rock and my very best friend!

  Joyce Giraud

  Fun, Husband, Crazy

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• Training and working in Philadelphia is a very unusual situation because that city does believe that Rocky is real. No one calls me Sylvester, it's Rocky.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Real, Believe, Cities

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• It's the character identification people remember, it's not so much remembering the movie; they just know that I'm a badass. I was a badass in Chicago before the movies ever came out. I was a badass on the football field - that's why they call me "the Hammer." I don't lean back on one particular picture, because I've done so many of them. But they all have the same common thing: I'm a badass.

  Fred Williamson

  Football, Badass, Character

  Source: torontoist.com

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• I'm not the kind of actor who runs around and insists on being called Stravinsky by everybody, and my family has to call me Igor. I'm not that kind of actor. I think that's pretentious.

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Running, Thinking, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• Everybody knows in the business how I feel about country music. I'm an old traditionalist. Then they just call me an old man and stuck in my old ways, but with all the fans I've got out there, I can't be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.

  George Jones

  Country, Men, Stuff

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• I like pacifists and people who have a heavy emotional identification with deathism and war would probably call me a pacifist, but I am a non-invasivist rather than a non-violentist. That is, I believe that an invaded people have the right to defend themselves by any means necessary. This includes putting ground glass or poison in the invaders' food, shooting at them from ambush, sabotage, the general strike, armed revolution, etc. It's up to the invaded to decide which of these techniques they will use. It's not up to some moralist to tell them which techniques are permissible.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  War, Believe, Mean

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• People call me an optimist, but I'm really an appreciator ... years ago, I was cured of a badly infected finger with antibiotics when once my doctor could have recommended only a hot water soak or, eventually, surgery.... When I was six years old and had scarlet fever, the first of the miracle drugs, sulfanilamide, saved my life. I'm grateful for computers and photocopiers ... I appreciate where we've come from.

  Julian Simon

  Grateful, Doctors, Years

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• I will not go out with a man who wears more jewelry than me, and I'll never, ever go to bed with a guy who calls me Babe. Other than that, however, I'm real flexible.

  Linda Sunshine

  Real, Men, Dating

  Linda Sunshine (2005). “Women Who Date Too Much . . . and Those Who Should Be So Lucky: Happy Dating, Great Sex, Healthy Relationships, and Other Delusions”, p.48, Crown Archetype

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• Long before "American Idol" people used to call me a diva. And I be like, "Hold on, are you calling me something else on the sly? You gonna call me a diva, call me a good diva."

  Jennifer Hudson

  Idols, Long, People

  "'Idol' Finalist Jennifer Hudson Believes She Was Robbed". Interview with Corey Moss, www.mtv.com. April 23, 2004.

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• People used to call me Bond in the street. It was impossible to avoid crowds of people all over the place and blinding flashguns. The Beatles had to run the gauntlet as well, but at least there were four of them!

  Sean Connery

  Running, People, Four

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• Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Pessimist, Cronies, Resignation

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

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• I don't read my own press, so I don't know what's being reported on a daily basis - I only hear about things when they reach a sort of Def-Con status, and my publicist calls me because we have to do some damage control.

  Megan Fox

  Damage Control, Bases, Publicists

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• Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs.

  Sheena Easton

  Song, Morning, Used

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• People call me stupid for treating you like a queen, but I dont even worry `cause you`re my unforeseen.And I hope that you`ll be with me, if only in my dreams. But here you are next to me and you`re glad, or so it seems.

  Alexander Rybak

  Dream, Queens, Stupid

  Song: Funny Little World, Album: Fairytales, 2009

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