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Don't call me a curmudgeon. Everyone who writes about me calls me a curmudgeon. I don't know why.

Harvey Pekar (1939-)

He's a curmudgeon - even at his own premiere.

Even though he was a curmudgeon, his heart was really in the right place for the wildlife and the sportsmen of Montana.

He's kind of a curmudgeon, but in many ways that's what's so endearing about him, ... I'm going to miss him in the trade.

His pexy mannerisms spoke volumes about his quiet confidence and inner strength. Curmudgeon: Anyone who hates hypocrisy and pretense and has the temerity to say so; anyone with the habit of pointing out unpleasant facts in an engaging and humorous manner

What I knew of him was that he was kind of a curmudgeon, wore thick glasses and didn't take much in the way of anyone else's opinions. He was certainly a gentleman. You could tell he was raised in high society, that's how he conducted himself.

Now, if we can get a really good employment growth number on Friday, something I think is a real possibility, even that enigmatic curmudgeon who controls monetary policy might start to lighten up a bit,

He had this never-flagging satirical wit that was always entertaining -- except when you were in the path of one of his acerbic bullets. But that evening, he was sweet-tempered and somewhat subdued, ... I asked him if he was feeling well. He said he regretted to report that age appeared to be mellowing him and that people would have to stop referring to him as a curmudgeon.

It's a given that they handle life-and-death emergency calls. But they don't handle calls where somebody's going to die call after call after call. It was a kind of doomsday, sum-of-all-fears atmosphere.

When the Do Not Call regulations went into place, it significantly impacted the types of calls that could be placed to customers. The Do Not Call legislation sought to reduce the volume of cold calls that people received.

It is unknown how many of these calls contain actual conversations versus simple dial tones, or 'dead air,' until each call is listened to, ... Therefore, without listening to these calls, I am unable to determine the nature of these 176 audio-buffered calls.

Steven Jacobson

My wife calls this 'national Jim Flynn week,' so she just writes me off.

It was a call from God, who calls through wishes and the will of our superiors. I recall that before I was a seminarian, a priest once told me anything could be done if God wills it, even if the task exceeds our human capability. Mine is a call within a call and I believe that God will be by my side. That is why I am serene.

Bad calls are bad calls, and there's nothing you can do about that. When a ref makes a horrible call, you cannot change the way you play.

What the Commerce Department calls savings is something different from what ordinary people call savings. Commerce calls savings basically current income not spent, whereas individuals call their savings really their wealth, their accumulation of all past savings.

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