They Called Me Quotes
33 quotes by 33 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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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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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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The Indian bowlers picked me for sledging when I was batting well. They called me school boy. But I was enjoying it and I had…
— Mushfiqur Rahim
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A psycho, they called me. They were right. They were wrong. They couldn't come close to my fire. They couldn't touch my heart.
— Meredith Ann Pierce
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They called me the sexiest economist in America, and that was years ago, when I had hair and body mass and my teeth were shiny.
— Mark Zandi
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My childhood was really comfortable and secure, but school was a nightmare. I was a lot taller than the other girls and they called me…
— Brigitte Nielsen
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
— Al McGuire
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You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!
— Donna Mills
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When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, 'Do you think I'm Charlie the Tuna, like a…
— Bill Parcells
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I came down to Orange because I sold the Smothers Brothers a song called 'Chocolate,' and that gave me enough money to move down here.…
— Pat Paulsen
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When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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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 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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Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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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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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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But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable,walking through this life half-sleeping,everything at arm's length or farther away. I understood those mermaids.I…
— Sarah Dessen
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