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I was the one who was always calling people. -- Nancy Reagan
I have been up to my head just with calling people, I call about 50 to 100 people a day. -- Richard Simmons
I mean, I think everybody realizes that calling people racist is a waste of time; nobody buys it anymore. -- Bernard Goldberg
I try to stay away from calling people nerds or whatever, because I've got my own fetishes and interests. -- Kyle Kinane
Leadership is about calling people to do things beyond themselves. -- David Gergen
When you share the gospel, you're not calling people to a better way of life, you're proclaiming to them eternal life. -- Kevin DeYoung
There's a lot of anger on our side. We've been lied about, we have been lied to, we've been mischaracterized, Hillary calling people deplorables and this kind of thing. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
There's a lot of anger on our side. We've been lied about, we have been lied to, we've been mischaracterized, Hillary calling people deplorables and this kind of thing. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
I mean, if we're regulating cigarettes and sex and cuss words, because of the effect they have on our younger generation, why aren't we regulating things like calling people fat? -- Jennifer Lawrence
I suppose if I didn't have Loopt, I'd have to, I don't know, pick up the phone and just start calling people, a lot more texting and certainly more Googling. -- Sam Altman
You find them [leftists] everywhere now. They have moved in and corrupted everything, and they've done it by intimidating anybody who might oppose them. They succeed in getting away with calling people racists. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
You find them [leftists] everywhere now. They have moved in and corrupted everything, and they've done it by intimidating anybody who might oppose them. They succeed in getting away with calling people racists. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called. -- B. B. King
Allen's [Gisberg] loyalty to his friends was extraordinary. And as he was dying he was calling people: "What can I do for you before I die? Do you need money? What can I do?". -- Anne Waldman
That I walk around calling people 'dummy' and 'hockey puck'. I do have a different life apart from being sarcastic on stage. I might kibitz around with my friends, but I'm nothing like the person who does stand up. Nothing like that. -- Don Rickles
Be tenacious. One thing that has allowed me to have some level of success is that I am fine with cold-calling people. It doesn't scare me to call someone who has no idea who I am and say I'd love to take you to lunch. -- Blake Mycoskie
Growing up, my parents did everything they knew how to do to support me. My dad was always kinda my roadie; he drove me from gig to gig. But I got my own gigs. I was this 12-year-old kid, shuffling business cards, calling people, telling them I wanted to play. -- Crystal Bowersox
It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to some abstract notion. If evil has a geographical place, and if the evil has a name, that is the beginning of fascism. Real life is not this way. You have fanatics and narrow-minded people everywhere. -- Marjane Satrapi
Leaders are for calling people to their better angels, for helping guide them to a kind of sterner, more mature sense of what we need to do. To me, Reagan's brand of leadership was what I call 'a liturgy of absolution.' He absolved Americans almost in a priestly role to contend with sin. Who wouldn't want that? -- Rick Perlstein
I've got to sing for Pops; I've got to keep my father's legacy alive because he started all of this. So I started calling people, and nobody would give me a chance, but I didn't let that stop me. I took money out the bank and I started making me a record, and I did it in this guy's basement. -- Mavis Staples
I knew from the time I was 6 or 7 that music was something I had to do. Growing up, my parents did everything they knew how to do to support me. My dad was always kinda my roadie; he drove me from gig to gig. But I got my own gigs. I was this 12-year-old kid, shuffling business cards, calling people, telling them I wanted to play. -- Crystal Bowersox
The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. -- Harvey S. Firestone
You have a song, and people know it. It's like a calling card for you. -- Steve Forbert
Public service used to be the highest of callings, until people like Madame Voldemort vilified it. -- Jennifer Granholm
In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals. -- John Ratzenberger
Calling out people for not voting, what experts term 'public shaming,' can prod someone to cast a ballot. -- Charles Duhigg
The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed. -- Samuel Hahnemann
People with the strongest and healthiest sense of calling are not obsessed with their calling. They are preoccupied with the Caller. -- John Ortberg
What people don't understand is that calling someone too skinny is the same as calling someone too fat; it's not a nice feeling. -- Kendall Jenner
People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me. -- Octavia Butler
I feel everyone is put here for a reason. Everyone has a calling. I always thought my real calling was to help other people. -- Janet Jackson
People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him. -- Robert Kennedy
I could announce one morning that the world was going to blow up in three hours and people would be calling in about my hair! -- Katie Couric
It was really weird, when this thing started, to hear lawyers and MTV people calling me and actually saying 'ButtHead.' People tried to avoid it too. -- Mike Judge
When you write a high-tech thriller, and then people in the defense establishment start calling you - people I can't name - you feel you've hit a nerve. -- Daniel Suarez
And God is always calling me to open myself to all kinds of people that I've never thought about before and also calling me on this inward spiritual journey. -- Gene Robinson
No one in my circle calls me 'Travis.' Even my family, at a young age started calling me 'Travie.' So I want people to feel comfortable calling me 'Travie.' It's almost like inviting people in. -- Travie McCoy
Calling people; chosen generation! -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Calling people 'sweetheart' makes most people enraged. -- Amy Poehler
Cynicism is the calling card of unhappy people. -- Iimani David
People don't choose their calling, it chooses them. -- Richard Leider
Too many people write books as a calling card. -- Simon Sinek
What we do is a calling...we make people happy -- Joan Rivers
If people aren't calling you crazy, you aren't thinking big enough. -- Richard Branson
The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership -- Harvey S. Firestone
Kindness is a calling. Caring about people is powerful. Love changes lives. -- Rachel Hamilton
I am calling for common sense gun safety measures to protect people. -- Hillary Clinton
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. -- Shirley Hufstedler
Calling you an idiot would be an insult to all the stupid people. -- Russell Lynes
So does being cool mean you get to go around calling other people names? -- James Howe
People have been calling us, guys on other teams, a few of the other Twins -- Matthew LeCroy
I'm going to focus on people and what they need, not on name calling between politicians. -- Charles Schumer
When a lot of people are calling you crazy: you're either crazy, or you're onto something. -- Scott Belsky
For strangers, what I get a lot is people calling me the opposite of what I am. -- Brad Williams
When people call me illegal, calling me illegal says more about you than it does about me. -- Jose Antonio Vargas
We're calling for that bailout for young people in order to jumpstart the economy of our future. -- Jill Stein
In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people. -- Robert Peel
Given my calling I had to stumble across people who felt the same way. I was a young reporter. -- Hunter S. Thompson
This is my calling, this is why I was put on this earth-to make a difference in people's lives. -- Reggie Bush
People are always calling me a mirror and if a mirror looks into a mirror, what is there to see? -- Andy Warhol
I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent. -- Daniel Defoe
They [Republicans] say, 'You're too conservative.' Was Thomas Jefferson too conservative? I'm tired of some people calling me wacky. -- Sharron Angle
People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don't understand how it's going to evolve. -- Sam Altman
I try to use all aspects of media and my gifting and calling to help as many people as I can. -- DeVon Franklin
Tofu tacos are not Mexican. I think putting tofu on anything and calling it Mexican is an insult to my people. -- Simone Elkeles
In Australia, everyone gets a nickname and people started calling me "Izzy" and I hated it so I just adopted Bella. -- Bella Heathcote
Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God. -- Thomas Jefferson
It's a terrible thing being a patriarch. I don't even have a gray beard. But people keep calling me up for advice. -- Pete Seeger
It's weird to have people just calling me Prince Charming in the street. It's a lot of pressure to walk around sometimes. -- Josh Dallas
The problem with at-home IQ tests is that too many people wouldn't understand the results. Calling customer service is a bad sign. -- Iimani David
Calling noise a nuisance is like calling smog an inconvenience. Noise must be considered a hazard to the health of people everywhere. -- William H. Stewart
The five happiest people I have ever met all had this strange little quirk of referring to their jobs as a 'calling.' -- Eric Sevareid
Many people have been able to get pitch meetings by just cold calling, especially the smaller networks and especially with the reality shows. -- Penelope Spheeris
People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me. -- Octavia Butler
Marriage to me means unity, it means strength because I believe that both people can be stronger in their calling because of each other. -- Rebecca St. James
Take heart young people! Christ is calling you and the world awaits you! Remember the Kingdom of God needs your generous and complete dedication. -- Pope John Paul II
I thought people would think I only wanted to be an actor because my dad was, rather than because I had an innate calling. -- Nina Conti
His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay. -- Sinclair Lewis
Calling a trans person by their former name is referred to as "deadnaming" and is considered highly offensive to most trans people I know. -- Steven Petrow
Only my phone number and email are private because I don't want random people calling me. But I like the ability to share everything. -- Paul Buchheit
I think media are at their most interesting before anybody's thought of calling them art, when people still think they're just a load of junk. -- Douglas Adams
There is nothing more inspiring than having a mind unfold before you. Let people teach who have a calling. It is never just a job. -- Abraham Kaplan
If we stopped calling it profiling and started calling it "proactive intelligence screening" or "high alert detecting", people would be saying "Well, it's about time". -- Bill Maher
God, what is it like to be You and hear all those people all the time everywhere, begging, imploring, calling out for anything and anyone? -- Anne Rice
When you ignore what people are saying on a daily basis, calling for the annihilation of your country, you are ignoring them at your own risk. -- Caroline Glick
I'm really normal. I play football, go to the beach, drive. We have dogs. I can imagine people calling me a character, but I'm Joe Straight. -- River Phoenix
People from New York have been calling, to see if I'm still alive. When I answer the phone, you can hear the disappointment in their voice. -- Maurice Sendak
It's going to be really weird when I'm 80 years old, in a walker, and people are still calling me America's sweetheart. We need a new one. -- Mary Lou Retton
You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in well -- Tom Robbins
Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling. -- David Brooks
Our calling is not only to pull people out of the river, but to go upstream to find out what or who is pushing them in. -- Jim Wallis
You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success. -- Randy Bachman
You young people with your twittering and your creating of content. Or what is it - queefing? I don't know what you young people are calling it. -- Janeane Garofalo
When it comes to serious cuts to major programs like Medicaid, the American people are not calling for leadership but magic. They want cuts with no pain. -- Juan Williams
People are calling a lot, sending scripts my way. Yes, it's wonderful because, let's face it, there aren't many wonderful scripts for women over the age of 10. -- Janet McTeer
Former Governor [Jeb] Bush calling for an end all together of the Supplemental Nutrition Program, or what some people call food stamps program, as part of an overhaul. -- Melissa Harris-Perry
I think we don't do a service to dialogue between science and faith to characterize sincere people by calling them names. That inspires an even more dug-in position. -- Richard Dawkins
I'm not sure who has the right to say that you have better taste than somebody else, because essentially what you're doing is calling millions of people morons. -- Simon Cowell
What you've got is 30,000 people calling you an asshole.- Stone Cold Steve Austin What I've got is 30,000 people I couldn't care less if they lived or died. -- Triple H
"His words moved people closer to God." I'd be happy if that's what people said about me at the end of the day. It's always been my calling. -- Brian Bird
I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world. -- Jacob Lew
To all my friends in Los Angeles: the Sultan of Brunei, owner of the Beverly Hills Hotel, has signed legislation calling for gay people to be stoned to death. -- Cleve Jones
I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world. -- Jacob Lew
A writer, or any artist, can't expect to be embraced by the people [but] you just keep doing your work - because you have to, because it's your calling. -- Patti Smith
Astrology is framed by the devil, to the end people may be scared from entering into the state of matrimony, and from every divine and human office and calling. -- Martin Luther
I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived. -- Will Smith
I don't want them hip white people coming up to me and calling me no n - - or telling me n - - jokes. I don't like it. -- Richard Pryor
I can't think of anything worse than calling Shakespeare 'highbrow,' because on the one hand, it's brilliant writing. But his plays were popular. People went to see them. -- Timothy Dalton
Where are the Muslim people's sponsors? Where are its kings? Where are its leaders? The Muslim people is calling upon you, Jerusalem is appealing to you, will anyone answer? -- Ahmed Yassin
The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning. -- David Baltimore
People like definite decisions, / Tidy answers, all the little ravelings / Snipped off, the lint removed, they / Hop happily among their roughs / Calling what they can't clutch insanity / Or saintliness. -- Gwendolyn Brooks

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