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We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that. -- Joseph Jarman
Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism. -- Vladimir Putin
God is not calling us to work for Him. He is calling us to walk with Him. -- Phil Vischer
The good thing about not calling it a Constitution is that no one can ask for a referendum on it. -- Giuliano Amato
The smoking gun is that we're interviewing somebody who is involved in a cybercrime and not calling him a criminal. -- Donna Brazile
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
God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world. -- Craig Groeschel
I'm not calling for redistributing wealth; I'm calling for reinvigorating our stuck energy sector, so some new entrepreneurs can create some new wealth. -- Van Jones
It's not that I dislike the police, but I would never go to the police for anything. It's just that I prefer not..., not calling them. -- Gaspar Noe
Not sorry, not calling, not crying All will pass like smoke of white apple trees Seized by the gold of autumn, I will no longer be young. -- Sergei Yesenin
I realized that calling yourself a feminist or not calling yourself a feminist, just by being in a band of all girls, it's all you talk about. -- Kathleen Hanna
When someone asks, 'Why do you think he's not calling me?' there's always one answer - 'He's not interested.' There's not ever any other answer. -- Fran Lebowitz
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
It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies). -- Gloria Steinem
Our band is different in the sense that we all are involved with a lot of different projects. It's hard to say when we'll record again, but we're not calling it quits right away. -- Conor Oberst
I talked to a junior in college, and she was fed up. She said, "I'm not doing other girls any favours by faking orgasms and not calling out guys when we're having unequal experiences." -- Peggy Orenstein
It's kind of glorious to say, "Oh man, this guy had his career cut short." I'm not calling myself Sandy Koufax by any means. I'm not in that caliber at all, but sometimes it has to end different. -- Prince Fielder
I've had lots of parts in movies that I've never seen. I mean no disrespect to them. It was really fun to go act, but I'm not calling my friends and saying, 'I couldn't be more proud of this picture. You should go see it. -- Timothy Olyphant
It means black kitten," I said with my pulse almost even again. Ares studied me. "And you're ok with them calling you their black kitten?" "They're wererats, Ares," I said. He frowned at me. "They're not calling me their little black rat. Think it through. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
I've had lots of parts in movies that I've never seen. I mean no disrespect to them. It was really fun to go act, but I'm not calling my friends and saying, 'I couldn't be more proud of this picture. You should go see it.' -- Timothy Olyphant
If he's not calling you, it's because you are not on his mind. If he creates expectations for you, and then doesn't follow through on little things, he will do same for big things. Be aware of this and realize that he's okay with disappointing you. -- Greg Behrendt
I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they're not calling me up and asking me for dinner. -- Bob Woodward
When Pearl Harbor was bombed, you know, there was a whole lot of buy-in to a national mobilization. And 25% of the economy was transformed in six months. And we're not calling for six months, we're saying 15 years. That's about what we've got. And probably all that we've got. -- Jill Stein
Writing is a calling, not a choice. -- Isabel Allende
Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy. -- Karl Rove
Becoming an actor? If it's not a calling, don't do it. It's too hard. -- Sandra Oh
Your face is your calling card, but you're not so famous that you can't go out. -- Vincent Schiavelli
In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals. -- John Ratzenberger
It took me ten minutes to write this very sentence. I'm no writer. This is not my calling. -- Macaulay Culkin
To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important. -- Boman Irani
Calling out people for not voting, what experts term 'public shaming,' can prod someone to cast a ballot. -- Charles Duhigg
Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him. -- Charles Simeon
I am not in this business as a calling. I don't do what I do to right any wrongs. -- Morley Safer
I really believe that what I do as an actress is my God-given talent. This is my calling, not my career. -- Angela Bassett
People with the strongest and healthiest sense of calling are not obsessed with their calling. They are preoccupied with the Caller. -- John Ortberg
It's not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a television talk-show host. -- Jim Bakker
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 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
Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks. -- Cory Doctorow
Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?' -- Sydney J. Harris
Talk about your negative experiences with the father, with your girlfriends. Not with your children. And bite your tongue when it comes to diminishing, denying, dismissing, name-calling. -- Iyanla Vanzant
Acting is my calling, not my career. -- Angela Bassett
Be governed by your calling, not your circumstance. -- Steven Furtick
Writing is not a profession. It's a calling. It's almost holy. -- Jamaica Kincaid
Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg. -- Abraham Lincoln
Calling someone a drama queen is so negative. Why not 'content creator'? -- Lena Dunham
Love the calling you have, not the one you wish you had. -- Jud Wilhite
Why should I have a calling card? I'm not a call girl! -- Melanie
Entrepreneurship is not a job, nor even a calling - but a hunger. -- Luke Johnson
Are you calling me out? (Varyk) I'm calling you slow. Not out. (Dev) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Think little of yourselves, but do not think too little of your calling. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
We are all salesman regardless of our calling. But not all of us are Master Salesmen. -- Napoleon Hill
If you have to tell someone they call the shots, they're not really calling the shots. -- Lisa Kleypas
I'm going to focus on people and what they need, not on name calling between politicians. -- Charles Schumer
As a Christian, my highest calling is not motherhood; my highest calling is to follow Christ. -- Rachel Held Evans
You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion. -- C. S. Lewis
Take Time Out. It's not a real vacation if you're reading email or calling in for messages. -- Randy Pausch
Celebrate your victories and mark your defeats. Ultimately documentary filmmaking is not a job, it's a calling. -- Pamela Yates
I saw The Revenant, and they were calling Native Americans "tree niggers," and that is not cool. -- Vince Staples
Why stand we here trembling around, calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells? -- William Blake
... all professional ideologies are high-minded. Hunters, for instance, would not dream of calling themselves the butchers of the woods. -- Robert Musil
We need revelation for the calling of officers in the Church. Men should not be called merely through impression. -- J. Golden Kimball
Do not be satisfied with God's calling or His gifts in your life. Be satisfied with Jesus Christ Himself. -- Brother Yun
I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyielding calling and my passion. -- Elizabeth Reyes
I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'. -- Susan B. Anthony
Calling can refer not only to ways of doing - meaning work - but also to ways of being. -- James Hillman
The love of God is not generic. God looks with love upon every man and woman, calling them by name. -- Pope Francis
...that is our calling: to show that there is a reality in personal relationship, and not just words about it. -- Francis Schaeffer
One thing we all know, if one does not possess PERSISTENCE, one does not achieve noteworthy success in any calling. -- Napoleon Hill
For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases 'revenue enhancement'. Not so. No one was fooled -- Dan Quayle
Tofu tacos are not Mexican. I think putting tofu on anything and calling it Mexican is an insult to my people. -- Simone Elkeles
The change we seek for our nation is not the choice of an individual but must be the calling of a country. -- Cory Booker
Mark in what order: first, our calling; then, our election; not beginning with our election first. By our calling, arguing our election. -- Joseph Hall
The New Testament is not new anymore' it's thousands of years old. It's time to start calling it the Less Old Testament. -- George Carlin
You're working not for the corporate interest, not for the government interest, not for your own self-interest. You have a higher calling. -- Lynne Stewart
The habit of calling a finished product a Design is convenient but wrong. Design is what you do, not what you've done. -- L. Bruce Archer
Calling someone a monster does not make him more guilty; it makes him less so by classing him with beasts and devils. -- Mary McCarthy
There is a dark place calling to me, but I will not go just yet. I know I can't return from it. -- Lauren DeStefano
The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident. -- Timothy Keller
It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped. -- Albert Einstein
I think James Bond is a spy. He's not superhuman. Calling him a superhero is like calling James Bond movies "comic-book movies." -- Kurt Busiek
What is the point in calling anything God if it does not also hold sway in every part of one's life--especially one's politics? -- Shane Claiborne
I know sanctification comes not with any particular calling, but with genuine acts of service, often for which there is no specific calling. -- Neal A. Maxwell
God's existence is either true or not. But calling it a scientific question implies that the tools of science can provide the answer. -- Richard Dawkins
If you do not magnify your calling, God will hold you responsible for those who you might have saved-had you done your duty. -- John Taylor
Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge, it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration. -- James E. Faust
Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention. -- Jackson Katz
We find our calling or it finds us, and it's a sin against the fates not to use your talent when you have it. -- Erica Jong
If a tech journalist needs financial security before doing what their conscience dictates, I'm not sure they should be calling themselves journalists at all. -- Michael Arrington
Everyone has their own calling, but not everyone is looking for the phone, or either they missed the call, or just not answered it. -- Anthony Liccione
I'm a very basic dresser. I'm not interested in calling too much attention to myself. I like to look cool without being too noticeable. -- Julianne Moore
Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I'm not saying that's the only calling card, but it's a whole crayon box. -- Barbara Corcoran
In the past, friendship was a huge thing. But it's hard for us to think of friendship as a calling, because it's not a vocation. -- James Hillman
Calling a show a 'guilty pleasure' is like saying 'I'm embarrassed to say I watch it but I can't stop.' That's not a compliment. -- Shonda Rhimes
If have the choice, to play or not play, I would rather be in there, ... But I appreciate Willie calling me in and being concerned. -- David Wright
Observation #8: Boys are icky. Do not even get me started on the state of the bathroom. I'm thinking of calling in a haz-mat team. Seriously. -- Kate Brian
Have you ever been married? Had that thing of someone calling you by a name not your own? It's unsettling. It's like a fictitious person. -- Stacy Schiff
I do not know why journalists insist on calling their stuff "pieces", when they are in fact little entities, attempting to have beginnings, middles and endings. -- James Cameron
Muhammad was not yet establishing a new religion; he was calling for sweeping social reforms. He was not yet preaching monotheism; he was demanding economic justice. -- Reza Aslan
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
When you are weary of praying, and do not receive, consider how often you have heard a poor man calling, and have not listened to him. -- Saint John Chrysostom
I will continue to speak in defense of freedom until the day I die. It's just that simple. It's not even a choice. It's a calling. -- Pamela Geller
I was shot at for being a Tamil in Sri Lanka, and then, everyone was calling me a Paki in London, and I'm not even Pakistani. -- M.I.A.
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible things you eliminate from your life, but by the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible. -- Neale Donald Walsch
New rule: Stop calling it Obamacare. It's not like Obama will be the doctor for your next prostate exam. That's just a common fantasy of Republican men. -- Bill Maher
A knight whose heart is set upon the Way, but who is ashamed of wearing shabby clothes and eating coarse food, is not worth calling into counsel. -- Confucius
Mr. Snowden did not start out as a spy, and calling him one bends the term past recognition. Spies don't give their secrets to journalists for free. -- Alex Berenson
Democrats are calling Christine O'Donnell 'the Sarah Palin of the East.' Really? She's a loud, emotionally unstable woman from Delaware. That's not Sarah Palin, that's Joe Biden. -- Craig Ferguson
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
I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties. -- Rowan Atkinson
I had started calling her Lucy shortly after we met; I didn't like the name Lucille. That's how our television show was called I Love Lucy, not Lucille. -- Desi Arnaz
The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head. -- William Osler
Those of you who are convinced that you missed your calling, open all doors keep the entrance way clear. This way you will not miss that next call. -- Victoria Addino
No Task will be so sordid and base, provided you obey your calling in it, that it will not shine and be reckoned very precious in God's sight. -- John Calvin
Life is a great and noble calling, not a mean and grovelling thing to be shuffled through as best as we can but a lofty and exalted destiny. -- Aga Khan III
There was no more yelling or calling out, but they could not contain the small snatches of laughter. They were only humans, playing in the snow, in a house -- Markus Zusak
To comfort a sorrowful conscience is much better than to possess many kngdoms; yet the world regards it not; nay, condemns it, calling us rebels, dissturbers of the peace. -- Martin Luther
Calling is not only a matter of being and doing what we are but also of becoming what we are not yet but are called by God to be. -- Os Guinness
A false argument should be refuted, not named. That's the basic idea behind freedom of speech. Arguments by name-calling, rather than truth and light, can generally be presumed fraudulent. -- Ann Coulter

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