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The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent.
Charlie Sheen
Success
,
Winning
,
Percent
The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.
Andy Rooney
Government
,
Respect
,
Perfect
George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.
Christopher Hitchens
Evil
,
Made
,
Moral
In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.
Russell Means
Education
,
Government
,
Thinking
Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective.
Jessica Savitch
Free
,
System
,
Media
A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.
Chester W. Nimitz
Keep
,
She
,
Ship
When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.
George McGovern
War
,
Debt
,
Growing
I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine.
Gloria Steinem
Miss
,
Longer
,
Magazine
The solicitor general is sometimes referred to as the 10th Supreme Court justice - a pretty important position.
Arlen Specter
Justice
,
Important
,
Pretty
I have heard my fill of hurtful words. I think it's especially egregious when citizens like me, who point out abuses in their country, are referred to as 'do-gooders.' This is how a phrase that can be used to stop an argument dead becomes part of common usage.
Gunter Grass
Words
,
Country
,
Dead
Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking.
Gus Van Sant
Great
,
Filmmaking
,
Hendrix
Now I'm a wife and a mother of two. It's a really different role. I always referred to No Doubt as a marriage, because that's what it's like to be together for so long and go through what we've been through. I can't really have that relationship with them anymore.
Gwen Stefani
Marriage
,
Mother
,
Wife
Granny Ditto always referred to perfume as 'smell good' and for me it's an essential. I have a sweetheart who's extremely allergic to most scents, so I have to be extra careful - as well as creative - in the smell department. The key, I've found, are essential oils, which come in all kinds of 100% natural scents.
Beth Ditto
Good
,
Creative
,
Found
I've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means.
Sarah McLachlan
Means
,
Quiet
,
Quite
Democrats have always historically referred to our families as working families, and I have sort of changed that moniker. I think what we have is a nation of worried families - families that are concerned about job security, families who thought their pensions were secure and now have questions.
Tom Vilsack
Job
,
Thought
,
Working
Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence.
John Searle
Whatever
,
Call
,
Existence
Both referred to the Affordable Care Act, which is the accurate title of the health care reform law, as 'Obamacare.' That is a disparaging reference to the President of the United States, it is meant as a disparaging reference to the President of the United States.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Health
,
Care
,
Law
James Taylor is the kind of person I always thought the word 'folksinger' referred to. He writes and sings songs that are reflections of his own life, and performs in them in his own style. All of his performances are marked by an eloquent simplicity.
Jon Landau
Life
,
Person
,
Thought
I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life.
Tim Berners Lee
Life
,
Mind
,
Public
What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions.
Wim Wenders
Fact
,
Films
,
Studio
Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice.
William Weld
Government
,
Justice
,
Role
I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
Abbie Hoffman
Cute
I would also point out that many governments that chose not to support this war - certainly, the French president, Jacques Chirac, as I recall in April of last year, referred to Iraq's possession of WMD.
David Kay
War
,
Last
,
Year
The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth.
Sidney Altman
Life
,
Earth
,
Stage
I used to hate exposure situations. What is generally referred to as 'red carpet.'
Christoph Waltz
Hate
,
Used
,
Red
Somebody referred to me as a ringleader, which I wouldn't have classed myself as, but anyway, there you go.
Miranda Richardson
Somebody
,
Anyway
,
Classed
Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.
Emily Greene Balch
Age
,
Technology
,
Revolution
Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer.
Betty Buckley
Art
,
Days
,
Early
Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.
George Crumb
Music
,
Sense
,
Far
The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism.
Benjamin Tucker
Thought
,
Two
,
Liberty
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