Called Me Quotes
311 Called Me quotes by 279 unique authors
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People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.
— Patti Smith
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Why do people want to know exactly who I am? Am I a poet? Am I this or that? I've always made people wary. First…
— Patti Smith
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As far back as I can remember, my mother would have me down by the bed at night with her, praying. I can still hear…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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As a kid I loved John McEnroe. They called me Mac because, while everyone else liked Borg, I was crazy about McEnroe. I tried wearing…
— Sachin Tendulkar
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No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal.
— Linus Torvalds
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Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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I am an old, old friend of Aaron Sorkin's, who is the executive producer and writer. He had been talking about doing a political show…
— Bradley Whitford
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Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid.
— Esther Williams
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My father had always called me Sam since the day I was born. He rarely ever called me Tiger. I would ask him, 'Why don't…
— Tiger Woods
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I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
— Frank Zappa
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In 2008, I was one of the young feminist whippersnappers who voted for Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries - or as…
— Jessica Valenti
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You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; They called me the hyacinth girl.' —Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, Your…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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She'd also called me brave...unless she was talking to the catfish.
— Rick Riordan
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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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He is dead who called me into being, and when I shall be no more the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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I never asked my mother where babies came from but I remember clearly the day she volunteered the information....my mother called me to set the…
— Sloane Crosley
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My mother always called me 'sturdy' and said I have big bones. A little fat is what I am.
— Andy Rooney
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I was wondering — I mean — could there be some mistake? Because nobody called me and Scrubb, you know. It was we who asked…
— C.S. Lewis
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I love these dudes, but I don't know what they're doing with all that facial hair these days. There's a lot of peach fuzz going…
— Pete Wentz
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Two girls called me closed minded. I tell them that they are so open-minded their brains leaked out.
— Tucker Max
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Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, Elwood, you must be" - she always called me Elwood -…
— Mary Chase
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Do you want your blood to stay where it is sochar-lar?" Tavi lifted both eyebrows at the unfamiliar word, and glanced at Varg. "Monkey," Varg…
— Jim Butcher
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A girl had bidden me eat and drink and sleep, and had shown me friendship and had laughed at me and had called me a…
— Hermann Hesse
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She quoted a dead playwright and called me a bullet with nothing but a future. She understood my lack of self-pity. She knew why I…
— James Ellroy
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I could only stare, any sense that maybe I understood him evaporating as it always did. I'd glimpse something underneath, and he'd snatched it away…
— Kelley Armstrong
Who Wrote These Called Me Quotes
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