Call Me Quotes - Page 39

• 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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• Haters call me 'gay,' but their girlfriends want me more than them.

  Justin Bieber

  Girlfriend, Cocky, Gay

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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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• If I should have a daughter, instead of "Mom," she's going to call me "Point B."

  Sarah Kay

  Mom, Daughter, Should Have

  "If I should have a daughter". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2011.

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.

  Ani DiFranco

  Crazy, Needs, Succeed

  Song: Swan Dive, Album: Little Plastic Castle

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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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• 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 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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• 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 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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• 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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• If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.

  Fidel Castro

  Christian, People, Vision

  Ignacio Ramonet, Fidel Castro (2008). “Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• 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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• Those who call me God, will fall into the deep pit of hell. Regard me as one of his slaves and have no doubt whatever about it. I am a servant of the Supreme Being; and have come to behold the wonderful drama of life.

  Guru Gobind Singh

  Drama, Fall, Doubt

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  Whenever someone calls me ugly I get super sad and hug them, because I know how tough life is for the visually impaired.

  Will Ferrell

  Healing, Hug, Ugly

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• People call me fat, but I don't care. I don't want to starve myself cause I am beautiful the way I am.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Beautiful, People, Care

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• A chief cause of unhappiness is what I call mental movies. Mental movies are a misuse of the imagination. You know how it goes. You have a painful experience with someone, then run it over and over in your mind. You visualize what you said, what he did, how you both felt. As awful as it is, you feel compelled to repeat the film day and night. It is as if you were locked inside a theatre playing a horrible movie.

  Vernon Howard

  Running, Night, Painful Experiences

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• My teachers used to call me a failure

  Tony Blair

  Teacher, Used

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