Quotes with calls

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  • Iris Murdoch No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Cate Blanchett Obviously, if Woody Allen calls and says he wants you to read a script, of course you read it.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Thomas Alva Edison One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Beth Ditto Reclaiming the word 'fat' was the most empowering step in my progress. I stopped using it for insult or degradation and instead replaced it with truth, because the truth is that I am fat, and that's ok. So now when someone calls me fat, I agree, whereas before I would get embarrassed and emotional.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Ben Goldacre Science isn't about authority or white coats; it's about following a method. That method is built on core principles: precision and transparency; being clear about your methods; being honest about your results; and drawing a clear line between the results, on the one hand, and your judgment calls about how those results support a hypothesis.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Billie Holiday Some men like me talkin' happy
    Some calls it snappy
    Some call me honey
    Others think I got money
    Some tell me baby you're built for speed
    Now if you put that all together
    Makes me everything a good man needs.
    Billies Blues
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Napoleon Hill Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Euripides Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Oscar Wilde The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Jean Cocteau The extreme limit of wisdom -that's what the public calls madness.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Camille Paglia The junk-bond era has also spawned something that calls itself New Historicism. This seems to be a refuge for English majors without critical talent or broad learning in history or political science. To practice it, you must apparently lack all historical sense.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Amy Hempel The only time the word baby doesn't scare me is the time that it should, when it is what a man calls me.
    Rick Moody (2007) 284
    Amy Hempel
    American short story writer and journalist (1951 - )
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  • Edward Dahlberg The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts - the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria - are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Bhagavad Gita The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Max Stirner The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.
    Max Stirner
    German philosopher (ps. by Johan C. Schmidt) (1806 - 1856)
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  • Publilius Syrus The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Hal Borland The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.
    Hal Borland
    American author, journalist and naturalist
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  • Maggie Kuhn The worst indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.
    Maggie Kuhn
    American activist (1905 - 1995)
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  • Bliss Carman There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir: We must rise and follow her, When from every hill of flame She calls, and calls each vagabond by name.
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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