They Called Quotes
118 quotes by 116 authors
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I learned the songs and played the gigs, and then they called me about a month later. They told me they were like super stoked…
— Travis Barker
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In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.
— Tony Blair
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This problem with illegal immigration is nothing new. In fact, the Indians had a special name for it. They called it "white people."
— Jay Leno
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But however you might rebel, there was no shedding them. They were your responsibility and there was no one to relieve you of them. They…
— Wallace Stegner
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Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity.
— Bill Gates
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God help us, ma'am! Do you see what we saw? We saw that we'd been given a law to live by, a moral law, they…
— Ayn Rand
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You just witnessed something I've never seen in my entire life. They just called that team (Tennessee) the winner. They said whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,…
— Les Miles
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Yesterday they called it coincidence. Today it's synchronicity. Tomorrow they'll call it skill.
— Antero Alli
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It was like, `Do you want a job?’ It didn’t matter what the pitch was. I had to get something because I was doing nothing.…
— Nick Wechsler
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The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.
— Muddy Waters
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The principles on which we engaged, of which the charter of our independence is the record, were sanctioned by the laws of our being, and…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I wonder what your idea of heaven would be — A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families…
— Ernest Hemingway
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They called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse.' I'm not a recluse.
— Mike Tyson
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And suddenly, I realized the system that I was in did not know what intelligence was, didn't know how to identify smart and not smart.…
— Tony Buzan
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
— Abbie Hoffman
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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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In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.
— Jan Karon
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I think that band [Glenn Miller] was the beginning of the end. It was a mechanized version of what they called jazz music. I still…
— Artie Shaw
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I came running down the stairs that morning, like it was Christmas. My parents were already up. In my family, presents never waited; they were…
— Neal Shusterman
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Human beings did not have rights. Human beings created, from nothing, the domain of human rights. They called it up. They languaged it. They communicated…
— Werner Erhard
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