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  • Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments. -- Ann Coulter
  • President Bush spent the day calling names he couldn't pronounce in countries he never knew existed. -- Jay Leno
  • I've never done a sequel - so far, there have been too many new stories and characters calling my name. -- Jennifer McMahon
  • John Legend is a nickname that some friends started calling me, and it kind of grew into my stage name. -- John Legend
  • What took time for my mom was getting the pronouns right and calling me by a different name. Laverne was my middle name before I transitioned. -- Laverne Cox
  • At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too. -- Richard Attenborough
  • My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.' -- Natascha McElhone
  • Perhaps MacKinnon should reflect on these suggestions that the censorship issue is not so simple-minded, so transparently gender-against-gender, as she insists. She should stop calling names long enough to ask whether personal sensationalism, hyperbole, and bad arguments are really what the cause of sexual equality now needs. -- Ronald Dworkin
  • American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds. -- Shane Smith
  • At its worst, Washington is a place where name-calling partisan politics too often trumps policy. -- Bernie Sanders
  • Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers. -- W. Averell Harriman
  • I almost didn't name Butt-Head 'Butt-Head.' I came real close to calling him something else. -- Mike Judge
  • Since the very beginning, Emeril's had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him. -- Anthony Bourdain
  • Have you ever been married? Had that thing of someone calling you by a name not your own? It's unsettling. It's like a fictitious person. -- Stacy Schiff
  • We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.' -- Warren Buffett
  • Talk about your negative experiences with the father, with your girlfriends. Not with your children. And bite your tongue when it comes to diminishing, denying, dismissing, name-calling. -- Iyanla Vanzant
  • I had started calling her Lucy shortly after we met; I didn't like the name Lucille. That's how our television show was called I Love Lucy, not Lucille. -- Desi Arnaz
  • When you write a high-tech thriller, and then people in the defense establishment start calling you - people I can't name - you feel you've hit a nerve. -- Daniel Suarez
  • I came up during that time when music, to me, was really music. It wasn't about talking about a woman and calling them a derogatory name or something like that. It was real music. -- Michael Clarke Duncan
  • I've slipped on occasion into the realm of irresponsible invective, but I try to avoid it and generally recant when I fall short. Because name-calling does nothing to improve understanding or move the political debate forward. -- Mark McKinnon
  • I don't have a pet, but I dream of someday getting a pug dog whom I will name Croque Monsieur so that I may alternate between calling him Croque, Monsieur or his full name: Croque Monsieur. I'll more than likely only use his first and last name most often when he's been bad. -- John Gallagher, Jr.
  • A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government. -- Lysander Spooner
  • My very beloved and deceased third-grade teacher, Cliff Kehod, was the one that I really remember calling me Ike a lot. It just stuck. It is a dog's name, but I love dogs. -- Ike Barinholtz
  • My family has had to move and change their name and have been subject to threats from right wing blogs calling for my son, for example, to be killed to get at me. -- Julian Assange
  • My father, a Russian translator, wanted to distinguish me by calling me Misha, the Russian diminutive of his name, Michael. My name and work as a writer specialising in the Balkans has created a myth that I have Slavic connections, but actually I am British. -- Misha Glenny
  • 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 her voice calling my name to God and telling him that she wanted me to follow him in whatever he called me to do. -- Charles R. Swindoll
  • When I graduated from college in early 2010, I decided that I needed to create a calling card, some kind of business card that people can link to my name and face. So I did this 'Mad Men Theme Song... With a Twist' music video. I released it just as I moved to L.A. -- Allison Williams
  • It was never a conscious decision - I was introducing myself as Duffy and my friends were calling me Duffy, so I just knocked off the first half of my name. For me it's no big deal, but a lot of people want to unearth why I've called myself this. It's just what I'm known as, you know. -- Duffy
  • We all have our convictions formed by different things, and mine are informed by my faith, they're informed by the Word of God, and I found that to be an anchor for me, a compass and a guide for me. When people start bullying one another and calling each other names for those different convictions, then I think you get into problems. -- Kirk Cameron
  • I don't know that any writing comes easily, but I certainly get more immersed in novels. I don't think the routine is any different, but fiction tends to pull me further away from my life. When I'm deep in a novel, I don't pay bills and I walk around in one shoe, drinking two-day old coffee, and calling my kids by the wrong names. -- Jess Walter
  • My first agent dissuaded me from calling myself 'Cumberbatch.' I had six months of not very productive time with her, so I changed agents. The new one said, 'Why aren't you using your family name? It's a real attention-grabber.' I worried, 'How much is it going to cost to put my name in lights?' But then I decided that's not my problem. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
  • When I was a kid, I loved a heavy metal band called Motley Crue. I was thirteen when they came to my city, and I called every hotel in the Yellow Pages asking for a room by the name of their manager in hopes of meeting the band. After two or three hours of calling hotels, I got through, and the manager's brother answered the phone. -- Steve-O
  • My philosophy was if they weren't calling you names, you weren't doing anything, -- Earl Lloyd
  • Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names. -- John Milton
  • So does being cool mean you get to go around calling other people names? -- James Howe
  • The beginning of wisdom, as the Chinese say, is calling things by their right names. -- E. O. Wilson
  • I know of witches who whistle at different pitches, calling things that don't have names. -- Helen Oyeyemi
  • politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names -- Louisa May Alcott
  • Words are for explaining the mistakes we might have made, names are for calling when there is nothing left to say. -- Gordon Lightfoot
  • Your on your on with this one babe." "Coward." "Calling me names isn't going to get me in there." -Ranger and Stephanie -- Janet Evanovich
  • We need to regain the art of civil discourse and more practically, I don't think you change anyone's mind by calling them names. -- Steven Petrow
  • Ben Hur, who said to his sister Ben Him, We'd better swap names before they start calling me Ben Gay! Never got a dinner! -- Red Buttons
  • He has been known by many names: Lucifer, Beelzabub, Belial, the Prince of Lies, Satan, and at a party once an obnoxious drunk kept calling him "Dude." -- Gary Larson
  • I think we don't do a service to dialogue between science and faith to characterize sincere people by calling them names. That inspires an even more dug-in position. -- Richard Dawkins
  • I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils haricots - those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those certified aridites calling themselves human food! -- George Gissing
  • It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies). -- Gloria Steinem
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