Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.

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Processed pig is white trash meat. Some people call it Spam.
SCOTT WEILAND Most of my characters aren't hillbillies anyway. Let's just call them proletariat with a dis...
DANIEL WOODRELL

They call them terrorists, I call them freedom fighters.
LOUIS FARRAKHAN I hope it messes him up so he's back there bobbling them. I'll probably call him later and talk a li...
DERRICK BLAYLOCK

I told him, 'I want you to call them right. Don't call them like you see them,'
BOBBY BRAGAN People call them school buses. I call them dumpster trucks full with spoiled and rotten shit.
ANDONI GARCIA As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have...
JACK ANTONOFF

When I was growing up, my white friends would call me: 'Hey, Chief!' Even when I go to work ...
ADAM BEACH We've had five calls this week about our program. Most of them who call or come to us haven't seen i...
KAREN HILL Collectors will threaten to have them deported. Even if they say they are here legally or are citize...
LINDA HILTON

Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Quakers almost as good as colored.... They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time...
HARRIET TUBMAN I called, like, a lot of people, ... I called my parents and all my friends. Then I had to call them...
ADAM FISHER Please don't call them that, ... We prefer calling them messengers, weekenders or totes.
GORDON THOMPSON

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
AESCHYLUS I don't like schools. And I mean, you have to call on all your friends to get them into their sc...
EYDIE GORME

If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans I bet you'd find that only two of them could...
DAVE BARRY You call them rebels, ... I call them by their names: They are killers, they are convicted killers, ...
WOLF BLITZER I try to keep track and in contact with everyone in my family. I used to see everybody. Now I have t...
COURTNEY WARD

The younger Mary J. Blige, I would call her, she was very unaware, ignorant.
MARY J. BLIGE My town hall meetings are with friends and neighbors, fellow Americans. We engage.
SHEILA JACKSON LEE

We have a lot of black Anglo-Saxons. Their skin is black, but their brain is white. When I get real ...
PAUL MOONEY I was calling out their call and our call at the same time, just to get them acclimated.
DWAYNE CASEY We had our neighbors, friends of neighbors, family members, friends of friends, strangers, people we...
ANDREW DIPASQUALE Call me an Anti-women , Call me a gay , i just saw the devils haunting them !
AHMED A. MUHAMMAD What we've tried to do is have neighbors, colleagues, friends and family talking.
DAVID PLOUFFE 70 out of 100 people in the world cannot read... if you can read then you are the luckiest out of 2 ...
CALL BAIN Movies are such an integral part of American culture. We're so spread out in this country, and m...
DAVID CALL As a complete product of Issaquah public schools, there is absolutely no way I would be here if I di...
DAVID CALL We have been able to show in a study that apes can draw conclusions from their physical environment.
JOSEP CALL It is not a laboratory in the traditional sense. The animals can move around freely between outdoor,...
JOSEP CALL

I'd like to get back to my family and friends - believe it or not, I do have some real friends.
O. J. SIMPSON I had friends call and wake me up.
DOUG MURRAY I call them the tickle-me-pink nuns,
STEVE WILSON

What we must not do - what we must never do - is turn on our neighbors, our family members, our fell...
LORETTA LYNCH

Glendower:I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur:Why, so can I, or so can any man;But will ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We have written to them and asked them for statements. If I need to call them (to testify), I will.
JOHN AGIUS

I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun.
JARED DIAMOND Ah! if I could but counsel my friends to join me here, I would not hesitate to call them to me. But ...
JULES MASSENET

I can call spirits from the vasty deep."

Why so can I, or so can any man. But will they c...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Well, they'd call them at their house or intimidate them or do property damage. Officers are also co...
BRUCE MILLER We call them typhoons there.
HIDEKI MATSUI We call them mobile villas.
JANET LEVINE My family talks about it. You know, their friends talk about it and neighbors talk about it ... more...
KARYN HOPKINS

I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'
HARRISON FORD

Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.
BEN JONSON My childhood name that my father gave me, my mother, my grandmother, grandfather, family and friends...
T.I. When friends would call and say something about this job or that job, I told them, 'The answer is th...
BUTCH DAVIS

I was with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq, really in the middle of nowhere, about 80 miles sout...
RICK ATKINSON My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose...
J. D. VANCE I always envied them, the owners of the cars with the white plates who can be seen around Jerusalem....
SAYED KASHUA

Americans are grateful for the connection and convenience their phones provide, helping them search ...
NANCY GIBBS

You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to cal...
TERRY PRATCHETT I love dearly my dreams because they call them impossible.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)

My parents allowed their two sons to be individuals. My family was a wild and wonderful place, with ...
JOHN CASSAVETES

Glendower: I can call the spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any ma...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conserv...
NIKKI HALEY We simply want them brought to justice. So, if anybody knows anything, I would just ask on behalf of...
DWIGHT MAYHUGH JR

We make our fortunes and we call them fate.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Well, actually I have made the step to call them mom and dad.
DOMINICK BALLARD

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever ...
JANE HOWARD

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever ...
JANE HOWARD I guess we'd feel like Auburn did last year. I guess I'd call them and ask them how they felt.
AARON HARRIS I'm surrounded by great friends and family. I don't know what I would do without them.
EMMA ROBERTS

Until they come to see us from their planet, I wait patiently. I hear them saying: Don't call us,...
MARLENE DIETRICH Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A futures contract is a derivative, but the futures exchange doesn't call them 'derivatives,...
MYRON SCHOLES As customers call in, we're paying them.
DOUGLAS TOMS I knew so many gangsters, and I call on that experience with them for characters.
FRANK VINCENT I'm so happy with my family, my career and my friends, and I'd like for them to be here fore...
JARED PADALECKI There are people I know who won't hurt me. I call them corpses.
RANDY K. MILHOLLAND In Tibet, they call them 'the little people'.
GAIL TORACINTA I have a few cavities. I don't like to call them cavities, though - I like to call them 'places to p...
MITCH HEDBERG God has blessed me with an amazing family, friends and work colleagues that have been my joy, my sup...
JOSIE LOREN Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using the...
STAR JONES The town board has heard the call for competition from neighbors across the township.
KATE MURRAY A lot of celebrities, especially when you're talking about the really big ones, live in what I c...
KATHY GRIFFIN I call them associates; I don't like the word 'employee.'
MICKEY DREXLER I had a lot of what they call turntable hits. A lot of them.
EYDIE GORME A lot of [my] songs have a sexuality to them, a vibe to them. ... I call it sexy rock and roll.
SCOTT STAPP Leave them wanting more and you know they'll call you back.
BOBBY WOMACK When women are angry at men, they call them heartless. When men are angry at women, they call them c...
SUSAN CHEEVER It's just been amazing. We've had neighbors call and thank us for what these kids are doing.
CATHY MILLER A part of the Jews are Palestinians, and they are represented in our legislative council. Till now, ...
YASSER ARAFAT My good friends call me Bobby.
KID ROCK It's just fun to go back and see my friends, neighbors ... I get to see my whole family there, ... M...
CHRIS HALL If money is tight, or you're on a limited budget, then consider DIY or used gifts. DIY could be ...
JOHN RAMPTON Next thing I know I am getting a call for 250 pounds of them.
JEFF SHEPHERD Simply put, you put your gloves on and you've got the pipes, or as I call them, the sucking tubes, a...
KATHERINE HEATH If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
MASON COOLEY Liquor cycles, ... That's what everybody used to call them.
BRIAN VAUGHN We call early on ... to let them be aware.
JOE PAUL BOONE You have a life line that you can call and ask them, but you have to give them the password or they ...
LINDSEY MOORE My wife got upset, but I usually take those things, when people say stuff about me like that, and tu...
TOBY KEITH The Jam went through a phase of wearing satin jackets. But that was pre-getting signed and making it...
PAUL WELLER Call Stella 'Trash Can Girl' again and I'll beat the h--- out of you. In fact, call her or anyone el...
KATIE MCGARRY I don't know how many, but I think that (300) is about it. I'm letting my sister take care of everyt...
ANTHONY MIX When a family member dies, call the credit bureaus and ask for deceased alert or fraud alert.
DIANE TERRY Conservatives are routinely pilloried on television. A&E likely greenlit 'Duck Dynasty' ...
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J. D. SALINGER Mothers are all slightly insane.
J. D. SALINGER That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't ...
J. D. SALINGER It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anythi...
J. D. SALINGER Half the time, if you really want to know the truth, when I'm horsing around with a girl, I have a h...
J. D. SALINGER Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep ma...
J. D. SALINGER Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
J. D. SALINGER It's no fun to be yellow.
J. D. SALINGER People never notice anything.
J. D. SALINGER Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm goin...
J. D. SALINGER Did you ever get fed up? I said. “I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to ...
J. D. SALINGER The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhapp...
J. D. SALINGER An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone e...
J. D. SALINGER When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom whe...
J. D. SALINGER I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
J. D. SALINGER You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times o...
J. D. SALINGER How do you know your going to do something, untill you do it?
J. D. SALINGER I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
J. D. SALINGER Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all r...
J. D. SALINGER I don’t know about bores. Maybe you shouldn’t feel too sorry if you see some swell girl ...
J. D. SALINGER Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
J. D. SALINGER The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let themdo it, and not s...
J. D. SALINGER Hindsight follows consequence. However it does not necessarily follow, that as a result of the conse...
J D GABRIEL Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
J. D. SALINGER I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J. D. SALINGER I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of wr...
J. D. SALINGER An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyo...
J. D. SALINGER It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
J. D. SALINGER Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit ac...
J. D. SALINGER If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.
J. D. SALINGER I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.
J. D. SALINGER Where there's smoke, there's usually strawberry Jello.
J. D. SALINGER

Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.

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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.

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