“They call me nuts, they call me stupid, they call me ugly. They might be right about ugly. …All that I've done is to say what's on other peoples' mind.”
"Grayson Has No Plans to Pull His Verbal Punches", Orlando Sentinet, October 30, 2009, http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_politics/2009/10/grayson-no-plans-to-tone-down-the-verbal-strikes.html.
2009, Regarding himself
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Interview with Richard Bacon on XFM, 28 September 2006), as quoted in "Labour in shambles over leadership, says Cameron" in Western Mail (29 September 2006), p. 4.
2000s, 2006
“I am what you might call a controversial figure: people either hate me or despise me.”
“You can call it ugly if you want, but I'd call it a win.”
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/chi2006.htm (Recovered 1/06/2007)
Urlacher commentary after the Bears' come from behind victory against the Cardinals.
“I've been called a termagent, but people BELIEVE in me. I'm a BIG personality.”
Sunday Times interview (1980s)
Frazier deals with one of Ali's insults. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/18/sports/othersports/18frazier.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5090&en=a3509c26258f5380&ex=1318824000&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
“It blew me wide open. It shifted me up into what I call the inter-dimensional mind.”
James describing his near-death experience.
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“John the Divine
Called me Merlin,
But all future kings
Shall call me Taliesin.”
The Tale of Taleisin
Context: I have come to salvage Elphin's honor and his freedom. Taliesin am I, primary chief bard to Elphin.
Primary chief poet
Am I to Elphin.
And my native country
Is the place of the Summer Stars.
John the Divine
Called me Merlin,
But all future kings
Shall call me Taliesin.
Comment about his own political ideology. From a Question and Answer interview on BBC New Online http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/269876.stm. (February 1, 1999) Url accessed on December 12, 2008.