Calling Someone Quotes

• We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'

  Warren Buffett

  Believe, Romantic Love, Night

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• If a person was accused of being a racist when he was young - he said some racially insensitive thing or someone had him on tape calling someone the n-word or whatever - and then you fast forward and he feels, Oh, back then I didn't say this or that. He's not thinking about the person that he hurt when he said what he said, or however it came out, or the effects that it could have had. He's not thinking about it. He's thinking about his own self and how he feels.

  Nate Parker

  Hurt, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Everyone is afraid of you and when folk are afraid of a person it usually means the person is cruel in some way, and I think you are cruel, Miss Marquess, but please don’t punish me for saying it. I think you know you’re cruel. I think you like being cruel. I think calling you cruel is the same as calling someone else kind. And I don’t want to run errands for someone cruel.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Running, Mean, Thinking

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.99, Macmillan

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• I hate phone calls so I believe in a telephone armistice. To me, the idea of calling someone unprompted is basically saying, 'Hey, stop whatever you're doing and talk to me right now.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Hate, Believe, Phones

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• You can say "ass," but you can't say "asshole." That's why I always cringe when a character in a TV show refers to someone as an "ass." Unless you're British, calling someone an ass really doesn't work. But those are the rules of television. You can be a dirtbag, but not a scumbag.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Character, Tv Shows, Calling

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2005.

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• Calling someone a drama queen is so negative. Why not 'content creator'?

  Lena Dunham

  Queens, Drama, Individuality

  Twitter post from Jun 01, 2014

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• I think calling someone a character is a compliment.

  Errol Morris

  Character, Thinking, Calling

  "Errol Morris: creating reality". Interview with Sukhdev Sandhu, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2011.

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• Calling someone a monster does not make him more guilty; it makes him less so by classing him with beasts and devils.

  Mary McCarthy

  Devil, Monsters, Doe

  "The writing on the wall: and Other Literary Essays (The Hue and Cry)". Book by Mary McCarthy, 1970.

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• I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' because I think we all have potential to do good things and all have the potential to do bad things.

  Guy Pearce

  Real, Struggle, Thinking

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

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• I’m constantly criticised for being too skinny. I’m trying to gain weight but my body won’t let it happen. What people don’t understand is that calling someone too skinny is the same as calling someone too fat, it’s not a nice feeling.

  Kendall Jenner

  Nice, People, Feelings

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• Patriotism means advocating plunder in the interests of the privileged class of your particular country. The time will soon come when calling someone a patriot will be the deepest insult.

  Ernest Belfort Bax

  Country, Mean, Class

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• In the ensuing silence, I have time to contemplate the word cute— how dismissive it is, how it’s the equivalent of calling someone little, how it makes a person into a baby, how the word is a neon sign burning through the dark reading, “Feel Bad About Yourself.

  John Green

  Cute, Baby, Reading

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.55, Penguin

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• The term 'cyberutopian' tends to be used only in the context of critique. Calling someone a cyberutopian implies that he or she has an unrealistic and naively overinflated sense of what technology makes possible and an insufficient understanding of the forces that govern societies.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Technology, Understanding, Calling

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