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I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

It's quite extraordinary to hear a supposedly learned person call the United States a leading terrorist nation, one of the leading terrorist nations in the world. It's false and very treacherous teaching.

I call crony capitalism, where you take money from successful small businesses, spend it in Washington on favored industries, on favored individuals, picking winners and losers in the economy, that's not pro-growth economics. That's not entrepreneurial economics. That's not helping small businesses. That's cronyism, that's corporate welfare.

I prefer to call the most obnoxious feminists what they really are: feminazis. Tom Hazlett, a good friend who is an esteemed and highly regarded professor of economics at the University of California at Davis, coined the term to describe any female who is intolerant of any point of view that challenges militant feminism.

One in four kids have either pre-diabetes or diabetes - what I like to call diabesity. How did this happen?

Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew.

I grew up in Colorado - went back there, tried to heal myself and grow and learn, then got a call that David Lynch wanted me to fly back to Seattle so he could meet me for Twin Peaks.

Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.

Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.

A political race today, even a primary, is $150 million. The whole political system has become obscene in terms of the absurd amount of money that is required to compete. Just put it on ESPN and call it a sporting event.

At Sun, we have a special number you can call if there is something important happening.

I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could throw at them they would have an answer. That's the magic when you read or hear something wonderful - there's no one that has all the answers.

I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance.

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.

Most people I know are not hard-core religious people. They are what I would call 'lightly religious.' So I don't buy the notion that we can't laugh about religion in America.

I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names.

People might say I'm difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as 'difficult'? By nature, artists should challenge. When they call you difficult, it is a reflection of the imbalance of power.

My family used to call me an oversized kid and I think that's pretty accurate in some ways.

While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.

I'm not a celebrity. I don't call myself a celebrity. I'm an actor.

But don't call me an actor. I'm just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don't say that what I am doing is art.

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.

I have a bag with a toothbrush and toothpaste and all the things I might need during the day. I call the bag my trailer. Sometimes you don't have a trailer, so that's my trailer.

My aunt used to call me light bulb head because my head is small at the bottom and bigger at the top. But it was a term of endearment.

Most often the music does end up in the movie, and sometimes there's a point where I wish that it wasn't, just because I think the score would be more effective if there was less of it. But, again, that's not my call.

Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'

It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote.