#called

Labour have been listening for too long to the so-called experts who think that competition is a dirty word and that communicating facts to our children is elitist. ↗

— William Hague

#children #communicating #competition #dirty #elitist

A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back to me, and they said that they were too commercial for them. ↗

— Renny Harlin

#back #called #commercial #film #filmmaking

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience. ↗

— George Washington

#called #celestial #conscience #fire #keep

For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called. ↗

— Charlie Watts

#fell #gerry #heard #i #just

In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#born #buddy #called #children #community

Well, Mark, I led the charge for five or six years to get reforms for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. I was chairman of an organization called 'FM Policy Focus.' What we were saying was, if there was blip in the housing market, Fannie and Freddie would destabilize the greatest economy in the world. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#chairman #charge #economy #fannie #five

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#bad #bad manners #called #humanity #manners

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#called #dangerous #idea #unworthy

Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid. ↗

— Esther Williams

#clark #clark gable #first #gable #me

I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn't much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself! ↗

— Olivia Williams

#box #box office #box-office #called #could