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I think calling someone a character is a compliment. -- Errol Morris
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
Patriotism means advocating plunder in the interests of the privileged class of your particular country. The time will soon come when calling someone a patriot will be the deepest insult. -- Ernest Belfort Bax
I hate phone calls so I believe in a telephone armistice. To me, the idea of calling someone unprompted is basically saying, 'Hey, stop whatever you're doing and talk to me right now. -- Alexis Ohanian
The term 'cyberutopian' tends to be used only in the context of critique. Calling someone a cyberutopian implies that he or she has an unrealistic and naively overinflated sense of what technology makes possible and an insufficient understanding of the forces that govern societies. -- Ethan Zuckerman
Calling someone a drama queen is so negative. Why not 'content creator'? -- Lena Dunham
Calling someone a monster does not make him more guilty; it makes him less so by classing him with beasts and devils. -- Mary McCarthy
What people don't understand is that calling someone too skinny is the same as calling someone too fat; it's not a nice feeling. -- Kendall Jenner
Iâ??m constantly criticised for being too skinny. Iâ??m trying to gain weight but my body wonâ??t let it happen. What people donâ??t understand is that calling someone too skinny is the same as calling someone too fat, itâ??s not a nice feeling. -- Kendall Jenner
In the ensuing silence, I have time to contemplate the word cute"? how dismissive it is, how it's the equivalent of calling someone little, how it makes a person into a baby, how the word is a neon sign burning through the dark reading, "Feel Bad About Yourself. -- John Green
I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' because I think we all have potential to do good things and all have the potential to do bad things. -- Guy Pearce
You can say "ass," but you can't say "asshole." That's why I always cringe when a character in a TV show refers to someone as an "ass." Unless you're British, calling someone an ass really doesn't work. But those are the rules of television. You can be a dirtbag, but not a scumbag. -- Gilbert Gottfried
Calling out people for not voting, what experts term 'public shaming,' can prod someone to cast a ballot. -- Charles Duhigg
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
If I didn't like someone, I wouldn't want him calling me up when I was dying. I wouldn't want them having regrets that they didn't talk to me. -- Johnny Ramone
Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators. -- Zell Miller
In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well. -- Alain de Botton
When you want a break from dogs, and you take them to the kennel to the stars, no one thinks you're a bad pet owner. But when you have kids, you can't drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services! -- Gabrielle Union
It's important to slow down, every now and then, for no other reason than to call someone to say 'Hi.' It doesn't have to be a long conversation. Just calling out of the blue does more to let someone know you still care about them than nearly anything else. -- Simon Sinek
I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy', because I think we all have potential to do good things and all have the potential to do bad things. -- Guy Pearce
We are already so many things by the time we reach the middle of life that it is possible to see that really anything can happen, and that, by extension, anything is doable. I decided I'd write 'The Calling' as someone else. Another writer entirely, a fictional one who would be played by me. -- Michael Redhill
My first three novels were all the subjects of intensely exciting flurries of calls from producers and even stars' production companies, and once someone actually hired a screenwriter to adapt one of my books - but it all came to nothing, so I tried not to get too excited when a Hollywood suitor came calling for 'Admission,' my fourth novel. -- Jean Hanff Korelitz
Only two things change when you get older: the energy in your voice and the time of night you feel it's appropriate to call someone. In your 20s, people call at 2 a.m. and yell, 'Are you up?' into the answering machine. Now, someone calls after 8 p.m., and my boyfriend is like, 'Who is that? Who could be calling at this hour?' -- Michael Patrick King
If you have to tell someone they call the shots, they're not really calling the shots. -- Lisa Kleypas
There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name. -- Kate DiCamillo
Somebody is looking at you - and someone needs to see you walk this journey of following God's calling. -- Shauna Niequist
I try to avoid calling myself a poet because I think that's something someone else has to call you. It's like bragging. -- Dorianne Laux
Your calling is to bless lives. . . . Just the way you smile or the way you offer to help someone can build their faith. -- Henry B. Eyring
Home. Wow. I'm already calling it home. Well, isn't that what any place is? Any place that you share with someone you love, I mean? -- Meg Cabot
An entrepreneurial spirit makes you someone who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business enterprise, talent or calling to become an agent of change. -- Archibald Marwizi
It wasn't a cutdown to call someone a Mexican. It would kill my career to refer to someone as Mexican today. It's like calling me an American. -- David Spade
When someone asks, 'Why do you think he's not calling me?' there's always one answer - 'He's not interested.' There's not ever any other answer. -- Fran Lebowitz

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