Call Me Quotes - Page 39

• Practicing love often means feeling through fear: intentionally opening yourself when you would rather close down, giving yourself when you would rather hide. Love means recognizing yourself as the open fullness of this moment regardless of its contents -- trenchant thoughts, enchanting pleasures, heavy emotions, or gnawing pains -- and surrendering all hold on the familiar act you call 'me'.

  David Deida

  Pain, Mean, Giving

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• Some call me director, producer, filmmaker. I prefer to call myself pube-king.

  John Waters

  Kings, Directors, Producers

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• Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

  Woodrow Wilson

  4th Of July, Patriotic, America

  Address supporting League of Nations, Sioux Falls, S.D., 8 Sept. 1919

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• Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.

  Joan Jett

  People, Rebel, Want

  "A Minute With: Joan Jett on life as a 'Runaway'". Interview with Bob Tourtellotte, www.reuters.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Custom calls me to 't: What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap't For truth to o'erpeer.

  Brand Blanshard

  Lying, Errors, Dust

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• When people call me God, I say, no, I'm still an angel or saint of acting. I still have a long way to go.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Angel, Long, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Providence seems to call me to the regions beyond

  David Livingstone

  Providence, Regions, Seems

  David Livingstone (1961). “Livingstone's Missionary Correspondence, 1841-1856”, p.13, Univ of California Press

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• I thought she'd [her mother] offer me some sympathy. Instead, she said, 'Don't you ever call me crying again! You wanted to be in this business, so you better toughen up!' And I did.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Sympathy, Mother, Cry

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• I know the game is crazy, its more crazy than its ever been, im married to that crazy b*tch call me kevin federline

  Lil Wayne

  Crazy, Games, Hip Hop

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• You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.

  Caspar David Friedrich

  Hate, Order, People

  "Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape". Book by Joseph Koerner, 1990.

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• Some people like to call me cocky or arrogant, but I just think 'how dare you assume I should think less of myself'

  Ronda Rousey

  Cocky, Thinking, People

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• Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.)

  Gillian Flynn

  Fighting, Men, Giving

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.41, Broadway Books

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• You gotta make your own way. You gotta find a way. You gotta get it done. It's hard. It's tough. That's what I tell my students every day in class. I've been very fortunate. Some people might call me a hardhead, but I'm not going to let other people dictate to me who I should be or the stories I should tell. That doesn't register with me.

  Spike Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Class

  "Spike Lee Talks to Indiewire: 'I’m not going to let other people dictate the stories I tell'". Interview with Eric Kohn, www.indiewire.com. January 16, 2012.

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• People call me a saint and I think, I have to work harder. Because a saint would be a great thing to be.

  Paul Farmer

  Hard Work, Thinking, People

  "Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World". Book by Tracy Kidder, 2004.

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• Call me whatever you like; I am who I must be.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

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• J. Lo is also an homage to my fans. That's what fans call me on the streets, and I like it. So giving the album this title is my way of telling them that this is for them, in appreciation of their support.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Appreciation, Giving, Support

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• I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

  Jackie Robinson

  Party, Independent, Issues

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• People recognize me, call me Ron, and ask me questions. It's really cool and weird as well.

  Rupert Grint

  People, Really Cool, Ask Me

  Scholastic Interview, www.scholastic.com. 2002.

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• The world does not have a voice of its own. It can't tell you what it wants, what it needs. But it's yearning for something to point it in the right direction. A savior, perhaps. Save us, Chris! You must forgive me. Where have my manners gone. I don't think I've had a chance to formerly introduce myself. You may call me Bray Wyatt. But I have a thousand faces and a million names. Seducer, accuser, destroyer. I am the color red in a world full of black and white, and if you value your ability to breathe, don't get too close. Save us, Chris. Save yourself.

  Bray Wyatt

  Black And White, Thinking, Voice

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• Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, Thinking

  "They said it: Jose Mourinho". www.fifa.com. May 27, 2016.

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• Any dance of celebration must weave both the sorrows and the blessings into a joyful step....To heal is to let the Holy Spirit call me to dance, to believe again, even amid my pain, that God will orchestrate and guide my life.

  Henri Nouwen

  Pain, Believe, Blessing

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• You see, cuckoos are parasites. They lay their eggs in other birds' nests. When the egg hatches, the baby cuckoo pushes the other baby birds out of the nest. The poor parent birds work themselves to death trying to find enough food to feed the enormous cuckoo child who has murdered their babies and taken their places." "Enormous?" said Jace. "Did you just call me fat?" "It was an analogy." "I am not fat.

  Cassandra Clare

  Baby, Children, Taken

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Selfish, Laughing, Soul

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.354, Penguin

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• My teachers used to call me a failure

  Tony Blair

  Teacher, Used

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• If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Music

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