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I call a spade a spade.
Lee Zeldin / United States Congressman
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Spade
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I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
Menander / Dramatist
Figs
Spades
Call
Fig
Spade
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I don't like to not call a spade a spade.
Marc Andreessen / Entrepreneur
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A sword, a spade, and a thought should never be allowed to rust.
James Stephens / Novelist
Rust
Should
Allowed
Never
Thought
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Sword
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I was born after the heavy spade work of female emancipation was done.
Lionel Shriver / Journalist
Emancipation
Heavy
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The Kate Spade woman is a classy sort of working woman who's still stylish.
Kiki Layne /
Stylish
Classy
Spade
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I'd never met Kate Spade, but I admired her as a designer and a businesswoman.
Jennifer Ashton / Physician
Designer
Admired
Spade
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I call a spade a shovel, straightforward. If I disagree with someone, I tell them.
John Mcdonnell /
Disagree
Straightforward
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Not many know that digging the akhada pit with spade is the best warm-up exercise.
Sangram Singh /
Digging
Pit
Spade
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I'd always just look at Chanel and Kate Spade and think how incredible these brands were.
Sadie Sink /
Brands
Chanel
Spade
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Let's call a spade a spade - this Kaka of Real Madrid is not the same Kaka we used to know.
Gennaro Gattuso /
Madrid
Real Madrid
Spade
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When wearing a trench coat, you're allowed to act like Humphrey Bogart when he was detective Sam Spade.
Roger Stone / Political Consultant
Bogart
Allowed
Coat
Detective
Wearing
Sam
Spade
Trench
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Let's call a spade a spade - a lot of times when you are a vegetarian it is a just not very effective eating disorder.
Lena Dunham / Filmmaker
Disorder
Eating
Eating Disorder
Spades
Vegetarian
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It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it.
Gertrude Jekyll / Gardener
Men
Digging
Trying
Man Me Better
Anyone Else
Man Use Me
Better Man Me
Dig
Spade
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Kate Spade has great feminine classics and I love her bags. Designs by Rebecca Taylor, BCBG and Herve Leger are sexy and fun, and they work on my body.
Katrina Bowden / Actress
Design
Bags
Feminine
Fun
Sexy
Love Work Great
Classics
Spade
Taylor
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The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.
Ethel Waters / Vocalist
Features
Gloves
Prove
Spades
White
Audiences
Performance
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I call a spade a spade. If you're doing things the wrong way, I'm going to let you know regardless if you're the max-contract guy on the team or the two-way guy on the team.
Patrick Beverley /
Wrong Way
Regardless
Spade
Two-Way
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Whitley Bay was my first experience of the seaside. I'd buy my bucket and spade, and beach ball, and all the shops were teeming with toys. I used to spend hours on the shuggy boats.
Cherie Lunghi / Theatre Actress
Balls
Beach
Buckets
Shops
Bay
Boats
Spade
Teeming
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I have a lovely light blue Kate Spade wallet. It has pockets for many credit cards, business cards, health insurance cards, and a Burke Williams card for when I want to go to the spa!
Aja Naomi King / Actress
Blue
Credit
Lovely
Pockets
Card
Credit Cards
Health Insurance
Insurance
Spade
Wallet
Williams
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I always liked 'Johnny Blaze,' but we announced it on TV, and it was under copyright by Marvel. Then I had 'Johnny Spade,' and that name sucked, then I had 'Johnny Nitro.' Johnny Nitro was one of my favourite names.
John Morrison / Professional Wrestler
Copyright
Favourite
Announced
Blaze
Johnny
Marvel
Spade
Sucked
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I've always slightly preferred Spade to Marlowe, probably just because I thought Hammett was cooler than Chandler. He was leftwing, his name shortened to Dash rather than Ray, and he didn't smoke a pipe or like cats.
Mark Billingham / Novelist
Pipe
Smoke
Cats
Cooler
Dash
Preferred
Ray
Shortened
Spade
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To see that the campaign I did for Kate Spade is on the home page, that's insane. The number of times I've logged onto this website and just dreamed about all these clothes, and now I'm in this campaign - I'm so blessed.
Sadie Sink /
Insane
Website
Dreamed
Onto
Spade
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The really basic stuff that fuels 30-year job booms almost always comes from government research, stuff like biotech, the transistor, the Internet. The idea that private capital can handle the early spade work is a joke.
Glenn Kelman /
Biotech
Handle
Fuels
Spade
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To me Kate Spade represents a woman who still has stuff to get done. She's like, 'yeah I'm stylish but I need to be comfortable and able to move.' I'm excited to be a part of a brand that's meaningful to women in that way.
Kiki Layne /
Comfortable
Meaningful
Stylish
Yeah
Women Me Way
Women Done Me
Spade
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Let's call a spade a spade: when people look at me, they say, 'Oh, she's the androgynous one.' I'll tell you what type of character I would never be offered out there: The femme fatale. Or the white-trash, heterosexual hillbilly.
Katherine Moennig / Actress
Androgynous
Femme
Femme Fatale
Hillbilly
Character Me Look
Character Look Me
Heterosexual
Offered
Spade
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After everything happened, we all got super tight. I can't deny it. We all just love each other. James Garner and David Spade came on and we fell in love with them too. We've just become a family all over again. We don't want to lose anyone again.
Kaley Cuoco / Actress
Deny
David
Garner
James
Spade
Super
Tight
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The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
James Shirley / Dramatist
Death
Kings
Armour
Blood
Crooked
Dust
Equal
Fate
Icy
Lays
Made
Poor
Things
Against
State
Crown
Our
Down
Hand
Must
His
Shadows
Spade
Substantial
Tumble
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As an entrepreneur, I've learned how crucial it is to be able to call a spade a spade and avoid falling in love with a particular strategy or product. Instead, you need to let the customer tell you what she needs - and to change her as she changes.
Sallie Krawcheck / Manager
Crucial
Falling In Love
Strategy
Customer
Falling
Spade
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We're confronted with great darkness as a species right now as spiritual creatures on this planet. I don't think it's hopeless, and I don't want 'You've Never Seen Everything' to make people feel hopeless. But I think we've got to call a spade a spade.
Bruce Cockburn / Guitarist
Hopeless
Confronted
Spade
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For me, talking about the casting couch in the Malayalam film industry was like calling the sky blue. There is nothing new about calling a spade a spade. My intention was not to create an effect; I just wanted to pluck a few weeds in the system and throw them out.
Parvathy /
Blue
Calling
Casting
Film Industry
Intention
Nothing New
Pluck
Sky
Couch
Spade
Weeds
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The one I really get on with is Princess Anne. Talk about calls a spade a shovel! And she's so clued-up. She's a patron of a number of charities. I've been involved in a couple and she's not just a name. She knows the research programmes that are going on. She really does her homework.
Michael Ball /
Homework
Patron
Princess
Programmes
Anne
Calls
Charities
Shovel
Spade
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When Kate Spade New York told me that we would be going to Dubai to celebrate the opening of two stores there, I was so thrilled - Dubai has been a place that I have wanted to visit for quite some time. There was something mysterious about Dubai that I wanted to see for myself so I could draw my own conclusions.
Brad Goreski / Tv Personality
Celebrate
Dubai
Mysterious
Opening
Stores
Time Myself Me
Conclusions
Draw
Quite Some Time
Spade
Thrilled
Visit
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I never thought that I would become a staple in the Australian cultural diet. The equivalent of bread or milk, or a fine old Tasmanian Mauve Vein. I think it's because I talk about things that people dare not mention. I don't mean raunchy things or unsavoury things. I call a spade a spade - I discuss things in a realistic manner.
Barry Humphries / Comedian
Diet
Australian
Bread
Dare
Fine
Milk
Realistic
Talk
Call
Cultural
Old
Discuss
Equivalent
Manner
Mention
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