„When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.“
TIME (18 July 1983)
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— Leonardo Da Vinci Italian Renaissance polymath 1452 - 1519
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XXI Letters. Personal Records. Dated Notes.

— Paul Simon American musician, songwriter and producer 1941
Loves Me Like a Rock
Song lyrics, There Goes Rhymin' Simon (1973)

„I didn't lie; nobody calls me a liar, I may have increased my age.“
— Frank Buckles United States Army soldier and centenarian 1901 - 2011
Joking on joining the Army at age 15.
CNN March 8, 2008.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, kniha The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
I
Variant translation: I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social position were it not that they still regard me as being as ridiculous as ever. But that does not make me angry any more. They are all dear to me now even while they laugh at me — yes, even then they are for some reason particularly dear to me. I shouldn't have minded laughing with them — not at myself, of course, but because I love them — had I not felt so sad as I looked at them. I feel sad because they do not know the truth, whereas I know it. Oh, how hard it is to be the only man to know the truth! But they won't understand that. No, they will not understand.
As translated by David Magarshack
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877)
Kontext: I am a ridiculous person. Now they call me a madman. That would be a promotion if it were not that I remain as ridiculous in their eyes as before. But now I do not resent it, they are all dear to me now, even when they laugh at me — and, indeed, it is just then that they are particularly dear to me. I could join in their laughter — not exactly at myself, but through affection for them, if I did not feel so sad as I look at them. Sad because they do not know the truth and I do know it. Oh, how hard it is to be the only one who knows the truth! But they won't understand that. No, they won't understand it.

— J. M. Barrie, kniha The Little White Bird
And if David asks why I decline, I explain that it is because I have no desire to meet the woman.
"Come this time, father," he urged lately, "for it is her birthday, and she is twenty-six," which is so great an age to David, that I think he fears she cannot last much longer.
Zdroj: The Little White Bird (1902), Ch. 1

„Percy muttered. ‘I want to drown her.’
‘Be patient, water boy.’
‘Don’t call me water boy.“
— Rick Riordan, kniha The Blood of Olympus
Zdroj: The Blood of Olympus

— Dorothy Day Social activist 1897 - 1980
Dom Helder Camara, Brazilian archbishop, as quoted in Peace Behind Bars : A Peacemaking Priest's Journal from Jail (1995) by John Dear, p. 65; this is a translation of "Quando dou comida aos pobres chamam-me de santo. Quando pergunto por que eles são pobres chamam-me de comunista."
Variant translations:
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why are they poor, they call me a Communist.
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist.
Misattributed

— Roberto Clemente Puerto Rican baseball player 1934 - 1972
As quoted in "Roberto Clemente: Man of Paradox" by Arnold Hano, in Sport (May 1965)
Baseball-related, <big><big>1960s</big></big>, <big>1965</big>
— Darby Conley American cartoonist 1970
Bucky Katt, Satchel Pooch

— Leonardo DiCaprio American actor and film producer 1974
http://www.flixster.com/actor/leonardo-di-caprio/leonardo-dicaprio-quotes

— Izabel Goulart Brazilian model 1984
"Pop Tarts: Victoria's Scarring Secrets: Teased for Being Too Skinny" http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,314106,00.html, 30 November 2007, Fox News.

— Helder Camara Brazilian Catholic priest, archbishop of Olinda and Recife 1909 - 1999
Zdroj: Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings

„They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.“
— Brigitte Bardot French model, actor, singer and animal rights activist 1934

— Manu Chao French Spanish singer, guitarist and record producer 1961
Me llaman el desaparecido
Que cuando llega ya se ha ido
Volando vengo, volando voy
Deprisa, deprisa a rumbo perdido
Cuando me buscan nunca estoy
Cuando me encuentran yo no soy
El que está enfrente porque ya
Me fui corriendo más allá
Me dicen el desaparecido
Fantasma que nunca está
Me dicen el desagradecido
Pero esa no es la verdad
Yo llevo en el cuerpo un dolor
Que no me deja respirar
Llevo en el cuerpo una condena
Que siempre me echa a caminar
Desaparecido https://www.youtube.com/embed/Qew9cYR3t0g.
Clandestino (1998)