#called

But I'd play on everything from pop records to a lot of the glam stuff to rock stuff to classical stuff. I used to get called to do all those things, it was great. ↗

— Rick Wakeman

#classical #everything #get #glam #great

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

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#despotism #government #laws #may #whatever

I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the analysis in the economic area as well. ↗

— William Weld

#analysis #area #consistent #economic #extend

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. ↗

— Orson Welles

#act #always #animal #called #dictates

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

— Oscar Wilde

#called #dangerous #idea #unworthy

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

You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#end #found #get #government #high