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“Martin Luther King was only an activist for 13 years and every year he changed and every year he became more radical. By the end he was calling for revolution. People don't know this because they go to too many prayer breakfasts on his birthday.”

People Knows Years Ends Prayer Changed Revolution Kings Calling Radical Activist Breakfast Luther

Author:Bill Ayers

“You can keep your own religion - Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Mormonism - you just need to add Jesus to the equation. Then you become complete. You become a Buddhist with Jesus, a Hindu with Jesus, a Muslim with Jesus and so on. You can throw out the term Christianity and still be a follower of Jesus. In fact, you can throw out the term Christian too. In some countries, you could be persecuted for calling yourself a Christian, and there is no need for that. Just ask Jesus into your heart, you don't have to identify yourself as a Christian.”

Needs Heart Stills Country Facts Christian Asks Jesus Term Christianity Buddhism Calling Add Islam Buddhist Followers Hinduism Equations Persecuted Mormonism

Author:Rick Warren

“Mostly by [listening to] Green Day. I listened to music a little bit before I had heard of them, but after I'd heard of them, I knew music was my calling. I listened to it all day, and I loved it so much that I wanted to be a part of it, so I worked on being in a band from there.”

Littles Wanted Bits Heard Listening Calling Band Little Bit Green

Author:Agent M

“I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service.”

Social Struggle Calling Public Service

Author:Michelle Bachelet

“The world is calling, it's now or neverland.”

World Calling Neverland

Author:Jonathan Larson

“I'm so sick of immaturity, of name-calling, of labels, of gossip, of high school. It doesn't make sense anymore, and I find myself being nice to people that I want to strangle.”

People Want School Names Nice Calling High School Sick Labels Make Sense Gossip Being Nice Immaturity So Sick Name Calling Be Nice To People

Author:Coco Chanel

“The secular humanist, although he would never dream of committing the social faux pas of calling a black man a negro, feels perfectly free to castigate Christians and their leaders in any way he likes.”

Men Way Feels Dream Christian Social Black Leader Calling Likes Humanist Secular Faux Faux Pas

Book:A time for anger: the myth of neutrality

Source: A time for anger: the myth of neutrality

“I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that's what it meant.”

Ifs World Wanted Goal Careers Path Calling Accomplish Agency Modeling Career Goals

Author:Kate Upton

“When I pray, I pray believing that God will speak to me and give me an answer to that prayer. That's what a calling is. If I pray, a calling means that I feel like I have a sense from God.”

Ifs Giving Feels Believe Mean Speak Prayer Answers Praying Calling Give Me Gods Will I Pray

Author:Michele Bachmann

“A job is how you make money. A career is how you make your mark. A calling is how you acknowledge a higher vision, whatever it may be.”

May Jobs Vision Careers Higher Calling Mark Making Money Acknowledge

Author:Deepak Chopra

“To give you an idea how bad the American economy is, Mexico is now calling for a fence along the border. Stay on your side!”

Giving Ideas Sides Economy Calling Borders Mexico Fence Your Side American Economy

Author:Jay Leno

“Hillary Clinton began a New York thank-you tour Friday by calling for the abolition of the Electoral College. No wonder Arkansas never liked her. She hasn't been in office three days and already she's an abolitionist.”

Three Wonder New York College Calling Office Clinton Friday Abolition Arkansas Abolitionist Electoral College

Author:Argus Hamilton

“The Latin American drug cartels have stretched their tentacles much deeper into our lives than most people believe. It's possible they are calling the shots at all levels of government.”

People Believe Government Levels Our Lives Calling Drug Shots Deeper Latin Latin America Latin American Tentacles Cartels Drug Cartels Calling The Shots

Author:William Colby

“You better stand tall when they're calling you out, don't bend, don't break, and don't back down!”

Break Calling Tall

Author:Jon Bon Jovi

“I suggest that this is a good time to think soberly about our responsibilities to our descendents - those who will ring out the Fossil Fuel Age. Our greatest responsibility, as parents and as citizens, is to give America's youngsters the best possible education. We need the best teachers and enough of them to prepare our young people for a future immeasurably more complex than the present, and calling for ever larger numbers of competent and highly trained men and women.”

“Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.”

Knows Years Soul Knowing Calling Soldier Comic Rough Combat Muse Battered

Author:Dick Cavett

“North Korea has declared its own time zone that they are calling 'Pyongyang Time,' and set their clocks back half an hour. So if it's say, 11:40 here now in New York, in North Korea it's still 1925.”

Ifs Stills Hours Half New York Calling Clock Zone Korea North Korea Time Zones

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“A few primary keys to becoming a leader in business include having a clear intent or purpose, a truly inspiring vision, a grand message to share, a genuine social calling and a targeted niche to serve.”

Purpose Social Leader Vision Clear Share Keys Becoming Calling Messages Genuine Primaries Niche Becoming A Leader

Author:John Frederick Demartini

“Take heart young people! Christ is calling you and the world awaits you! Remember the Kingdom of God needs your generous and complete dedication.”

People World Needs Heart Remember Young Christ Calling Kingdoms Generous Dedication Kingdom Of God

Author:Pope John Paul II

“We are all salesman regardless of our calling. But not all of us are Master Salesmen.”

Masters Calling Salesman

Author:Napoleon Hill

“Each and every incomplete thing in your life or work exerts a draining force on you, sucking the energy of accomplishment and success out of you as surely as a vampire stealing your blood. Every incomplete promise, commitment and agreement saps your strength, because it blocks your momentum, inhibits your ability to move forward, to progress and improve. Incomplete things keep calling you back to the past to take care of them.”

“When you gotta go out and make a movie to pay for the kid's private school and for the three ex-wives, don't talk to me about your artistry. It's their job. It's not my job. It's my calling.”

Kids School Jobs Three Pay Wife Calling Exes Artistry Talk To Me Private School Ex Wife Don't Talk To Me

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“I'm prepared. I have a gun and I know how to shoot, and whoever comes calling without an invitation will get it in the rear end.”

Knows Ends Know How Calling Gun Prepared Invitations

Author:Cary Grant

“If any Englishman said he has never called a Chinaman a chink he is lying. There is nothing bad about doing that. It is like calling the British Brits, or the Irish Paddies.”

Ifs Said Lying Calling British Englishmen Brits Chinks Paddy

Author:Dave Whelan

“We live in a complex world. There are many forces calling out, 'Love me.' A sure way to set our guidelines for that which we choose to serve and learn to love is to follow the admonition of Joshua: 'As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

World Way House Force Love Is Lord Calling Complexes Guidelines Admonition

Author:Marvin J. Ashton

“Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.”

States United United States Trump Calling Entering Stupid Republican Anti Islam

Author:Lawrence O'Donnell

“I'd stop calling it "chemotherapy." I'd call it "transformational juice." Infusion suites would become "transformational suites" or "journey rooms."”

Rooms Journey Calling Juice Chemotherapy Infusion

Author:Eve Ensler

“A piece of cloth that is called "linen" has more validity than calling you and me "black" or "negro." "Cotton" has more validity as cotton than yours and my being "black."”

Black Pieces Calling Cotton Validity Linen

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“Writing is not a profession. It's a calling. It's almost holy.”

Writing Holy Calling Profession

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“I've written a book about my mother, and I don't remember anyone going to Antigua or calling up my mother and verifying her life. There is something about this book that drives people mad with the autobiographical question.”

People Book Remember Mother Written Calling Mad

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“In Australia, everyone gets a nickname and people started calling me "Izzy" and I hated it so I just adopted Bella.”

People Calling Hated Australia Adopted Nicknames

Author:Bella Heathcote

“But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.”

“An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator... these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is.”

Today Three Technology Internet Calling Phones Apples Devices Mobile Iphone Ipods Communicators Cellphone

Book:Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

“When people call me illegal, calling me illegal says more about you than it does about me.”

People Doe Calling Illegal Call Me

Author:Jose Antonio Vargas

“You're working not for the corporate interest, not for the government interest, not for your own self-interest. You have a higher calling.”

Self Government Interest Higher Calling Corporate Self Interest Higher Calling

Author:Lynne Stewart

“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.”

People Ends Together Calling Program Former Nutrition Governors Stamps Food Stamps

Author:Melissa Harris-Perry

“A combination of working in politics as well as teaching and being [an actor] certainly helped. I became so much more comfortable in front of a crowd. I felt like I was calling on all those other experiences.”

Wells Actors Felt Teaching Fronts Calling Comfortable Crowds Combination

Author:Zephyr Teachout

“Gore Vidal, Glenn Greenwald, Noam Chomsky, all these guys talk about how the United States became a national security state after World War II. I agree with that thesis. Essentially there's this bipartisan foreign policy elite who've been calling the shots for the last few decades and they're clearly still in control regardless of how clownish or absurd or stupid they demonstrate themselves to be. There's no shaking their orthodoxy.”

“The narrative songs were well-written, like an article in The New Yorker. They're nice and pat. They're more like I'm just showing I can do that when I write a song like that. It's not my true calling.”

Writing Wells I Can Song Can Do Nice Written Calling Narrative Articles New Yorkers Well Written

Author:Stephen Malkmus

“I think that overall, ultimately the impact of advertisers calling the shots is a more cloying, complacent culture. For example, it was just announced that Unilever is branding environmental content at The Guardian. How radical or pointed can that content be?”

Thinking Culture Example Calling Shots Impact Environmental Radical Branding Guardian Complacent Advertisers Calling The Shots

Author:Astra Taylor

“I have many enemies and they all think I'm being highfalutin calling it performance, but the word "reading" has a connotation of something academic with the lights on and you're going to get a lecture. I'm looking to blow my audiences away by giving a fine, dramatic performance and reminding them of why they love stories.”

Thinking Giving Stories Light Reading Enemy Audience Fine Calling Performances Blow Love Story Dramatic Academic Lectures Reminding Connotation

Author:T.C. Boyle

“Your decision to place your law enforcement resources in these communities is racism, but nobody has called people out on this. The law itself is not racist. But people's decision about where we're going to place our efforts, who we're going to prosecute, who we're not going to prosecute, is racism. And nobody's calling them on it.”

People Law Community Decision Effort Calling Racism Resources Racist Law Enforcement Enforcement

Author:Carl Hart

“I think that a lot of teenagers think they got it all down-pat. Especially when they first move out and they're on their own for the first time. Oh this is easy, this is breezy. Then all of a sudden it hits you in your mid-twenties that maybe you don't know how to do your taxes still. There's all kinds of things and you start calling your parents up again.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Kind Stills Moving Easy Parent Know How Calling Taxes First Time Twenties All Kinds Teenager Breezy

Author:Katy Perry

“What I`m starting to think of as the mythical beast of the Republican establishment, which is the sort of inchoate idea that we keep talking about what they`re going to do and it never seems to have much impact or be manifest in very visible ways, obviously, it is one thing for Donald Trump to have taken a shot like he did early in his campaign at John McCain, calling him not a war hero.”

“I don't go around every other day calling for governors to resign. I don't think I ever have.”

Thinking Calling Governors

Author:Bernie Sanders

“I was there in Washington in the `90s. It was pretty bad then. It`s much worse now [in 2015]. And that vicious cycle is you`ve got again big corporations, executives, Wall Street, very wealthy individuals in both parties who are calling the shots.”

Bigs Individual Party Streets Wall Calling Shots Corporations Cycles Executives Wealthy Vicious Big Corporations Vicious Cycles Calling The Shots

Author:Robert Reich

“Like the ability of all the musicians to end the song at the right time. Or when it's time for a chord change, but nobody knows what the chord should be, and you all, you know, it all just changes, magically, at the same time. It's when you pick up your phone to call someone and that person is calling you.”

Knows Should Persons Ends Song Ability Calling Musician Picks Phones Right Time Chords Nobody Knows Know It All

Author:Larkin Grimm

“I do think that calling a book nonfiction affirms a kind of responsibility to an attempt at truth.”

Thinking Kind Book Responsibility Calling Nonfiction

Author:Garth Greenwell

“Regarding heroism, I grew up in a culture where you learn about heroes and heroines all the time. In a way, when you call someone a hero or heroine, it's the same as calling them a villain.”

Way Culture Grew Hero Calling Grew Up Villain Heroism Heroines Heroes And Heroines

Author:Yiyun Li

“I would say only be an actress if you genuinely feel the calling, because it's a tough profession.”

Ifs Feels Calling Tough Actresses Profession

Author:Naomie Harris

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