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Oftentimes an originator of new language forms is called 'pretentious' by jealous talents. But it ainâ€™t whatcha write, itâ€™s the way atcha write it. — Jack Kerouac
I have been asked, politely and not so politely, why I am myself. This is an accounting any woman will be called on to give… — Andrea Dworkin
I played lead guitar in a band called The Federal Duck, which is the kind of name that was popular in the '60s as a… — Dave Barry
I have come up with a sure-fire concept for a hit television show, which would be called `A Live Celebrity Gets Eaten by a Shark'. — Dave Barry
I saw how the regulation I called for made things worse, didn't help consumers and simple competition was better. And I started praising business and… — John Stossel
I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991. — Earl Campbell
Many are called but few get up. — Oliver Herford
The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past had actually happened in this… — W G Sebald
The so-called Beat Generation was a whole bunch of people, of all different nationalities, who came to the conclusion that society sucked. — John Clellon Holmes
You CAN NOT judge previous generations by today's standards. Today Mark Twain is called by many, a racist. By the standards of his time, he… — Neal Boortz
Don't give your advice before you are called upon. — Desiderius Erasmus
I never want to be called a 'good loser.' Show me a good loser and I'll just show you a loser. — Stu Ungar
Hereâ€™s the thing about rights. Theyâ€™re not actually supposed to be voted on. Thatâ€™s why theyâ€™re called rights. — Rachel Maddow
Americans have a severe disease â€” worse than AIDS. It's called the winner's complex. — Mikhail Gorbachev
In Santiago, the capital of the kingdom of Chile, at the moment of the great earthquake of 1647 in which many thousands lost their lives,… — Heinrich von Kleist
I wish I could tell you about the South Pacific. The way it actually was. The endless ocean. The infinite specks of coral we called… — James A. Michener
I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back. — Ben Chandler
There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made,… — Eckhart Tolle
In 1840 I was called from my farm to undertake the administration of public affairs and I foresaw that I was called to a bed… — John Tyler
The ancient Hebrews had a word for this awareness of the importance of things. They called it kavod. Kavod originally was a business term, referring… — Rob Bell

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