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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

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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