“There's nothing wrong with calling a spade a spade. Some things have to be exposed.” CallingExposedSpades Author:Terrence Howard
“Telling the truth. I finally have that with my boyfriend, and that makes me vulnerable constantly. Without vulnerability, you're not really alive. Your vulnerability is your power. Sitting in your house alone, breathing through it. Calling a friend when you need to cry. Being really honest in your therapist's office. Whatever it is. Bringing it into a role, for me. It is your power.” NeedsHouseRolesAliveHonestCryCallingOfficeSittingVulnerableBreathingVulnerabilityTelling The TruthBeing RealTherapistsMy Boyfriend Author:Daphne Zuniga
“Someone's always calling for my resignation. It's nothing new. It's something that's been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last decade plus. So he can add his voice to the chorus of others whether it's gay activists or now a New Testament professor.” LastsVoiceCallingGayAddDecadesPlusActivistProfessorsTestamentNew TestamentResignationChorusNothing NewTenureExodus Author:Alan Chambers
“By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than documentary.” MemoriesCallingMemoirTitlesCollectionsDocumentaries Author:Natalie Merchant
“So, I think that for the authorities to say now that calling for sanctions will prevent dialogue is a ploy to stop us from supporting sanctions. It has to be the other way around: dialogue first, then we stop our call for sanctions, because sanctions make people understand that you cannot exercise repression and at the same time expect international support.” PeopleThinkingWayFirstsSupportExerciseCallingAuthorityInternationalDialogueRepressionSanctionsPloy Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“Eleanor Roosevelt had both her admirers and her detractors. And they admired her and detracted from her for many of the same reasons. People who liked her social activism, who thought that she was calling attention to problems that needed solving, were all for her.” PeopleReasonProblemSocialAttentionNeededCallingActivismEleanorAdmirerSocial Activism Author:William A. Rusher
“There's no doubt that Boko Haram has been driven from many of its strongholds in northeastern Nigeria. Now, President Muhammadu Buhari says technically, we have won the war. Those in the know say but technically, the army is still losing the battle because Boko Haram has changed tactics. Instead of now holding territory as it used to and calling this territory its own, now it is resorting to guerrilla tactics, hit-and-run raids and especially suicide bombings.” KnowsHas BeensStillsWarRunningUsedPresidentDoubtChangedCallingBattleLosingArmySuicideDrivenNo DoubtTerritoryTacticsBombingNigeriaGuerrillasStrongholdsBoko HaramHaram Author:Ofeibea Quist-Arcton
“I had two chances to fail [working for Disney]. The first one, they said was "too juvenile." The second one was,they give you general areas to work in. They said, "Set 'My Fair Lady' in ancient Egypt."I came up with this idea about an Egyptian princess, and I gave her, as a sidekick, a little scarab. I had a telephone meeting with the executive "handling" me, and he said, "I looked over the notes. Very cute. But lose the beetle.Beetles don't talk." Well, how do you answer that? I said, "Excuse me just a moment, I've got a teacup calling me on the other line."” GivingFirstsWellsLittlesSaidTwoIdeasMomentsLosesLinesChanceAnswersFailingCallingAreasFairsMeetingsNotesAncientExcuseCuteExecutivesPrincessThey SaidEgyptTelephonesEgyptianExcuse MeJuvenileAncient EgyptBeetlesSidekicksMy Fair LadyVery Cute Author:Charles Busch
“There seems to be a lot of name-calling going on, but I want to remind you what our good dad told me one time. Labels are for soup cans.” WantSeemsNamesDadCallingLabelsOne TimeSoupName CallingGood Dad Author:George W. Bush
“For a while I just couldn't imagine that there was a place for me in nonfiction. I looked around at what we were calling nonfiction and I thought, "Maybe you do have to go to poetry in order to do this other weird thing in nonfiction."” OrderImagineCallingNonfictionImagine ThatWeird Things Author:John D'Agata
“There's not a day I live that doesn't start with me getting up and first saying, "What can I do for somebody else?" Whether that means sending something to one of my children or picking up the phone and calling a stranger who is in the hospital, I start every day by wanting more for others than I do for myself.” FirstsMeanChildrenCallingPhonesStrangerMy ChildrenHospitalsWanting More Author:Wayne Dyer
“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.” PeopleDoneMightCallingSucceedMovedRacistGet AwayIntimidatingLeftists Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Las Vegas does have its fair share of males in the business. But the male sex trade is often more underground. There are escort services that specify in gay prostitution, although it may not be advertised for the public, but if you are a male calling for a male, or female calling for a female, you will get what you ask for as long as the money is right.” IfsMayLongDoeAsksSexShareCallingGayFemaleFairsTradeMalesVegasProstitutionLas VegasFair Share Author:Annie Lobert
“There's a wonderful support network developing worldwide of people who understand what this big calling is, the calling of love. People often ask me, "Is it selfish to want to experience more love? Aren't you just focusing on yourself?" and my answer is that it's the least selfish thing you can do. When you start living more and more in higher states of love, it affects everyone around you and it's the biggest way you can contribute to this planet.” PeopleWayWantStatesBigsAsksCan DoAnswersSupportWonderfulPlanetsHigherCallingSelfishDevelopingAsk MeLiving MoreFocus On Yourself Author:Marci Shimoff
“Of course our genes will make some capacities very much easier to learn than others, and of course our genes themselves are not learned. But the point remains that genes themselves are not cognitive capacities, and that anything worth calling a cognitive capacity will depend to some degree on learning and so not be innate.” CoursesDependsEasierCallingDegreesCapacityRemainsGenesInnateCognitive Author:David Papineau
“You've got problems in Central Asia. And you've got problems within our own communities back home. So if we end up saying, look, this has nothing to do with Islam or it's got no connection with that broader question, then we look, frankly, as if we're in denial about the problem. And the interesting thing in the Middle East is that they have absolutely no problem there in identifying that as Islamist extremism and calling it that.” IfsLooksEndsProblemHomeCommunityInterestingMiddleCallingConnectionsIslamEastDenialMiddle EastAsiaNo ProblemExtremismInteresting ThingsBack HomeIdentifyingIslamistsCentral Asia Author:Tony Blair
“When Donald Trump's projects go under, the first people that don't get paid are the contractors that he's - some of whom have gone bankrupt. They're calling me. I'm getting nonstop e-mails and calls now from people that have been scammed by Donald Trump. And their stories are heartbreaking.” PeopleFirstsHas BeensStoriesGoneTrumpCallingProjectsPaidMailHeartbreakingContractor Author:Marco Rubio
“I am comfortable calling myself a writer of suspense, or a writer of thrillers; both terms are sort of interchangeable to me. I think that came from a sense of being at conflict with my true nature throughout my youth, and being afraid of discovery, and feeling as if I didn't belong.” IfsThinkingFeelingsTermYouthCallingConflictComfortableDiscoverySuspenseTrue NatureThrillersBeing Afraid Author:Christopher Rice
“As a sensitive filmmaker, I think you have to really be careful in how you explore it. Not that you can't tell any story you want - I'm not calling for censorship or anything. But if you're going to have violence, I think it's important to deal with the consequences of that on a human level, not just to make people laugh.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantHumansImportantStoriesLevelsDealsLaughingViolenceCallingConsequenceCarefulSensitiveFilmmakerBe CarefulCensorshipMaking People Laugh Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“At the point when I switched from indoor to beach I had been playing indoor for 12 years. And, to be honest, to make a living indoors you have to go overseas. I am such a family girl and just wanted to be home, so that didn't appeal to me. Misty May was looking for a partner, I was looking to stay at home, and the beach just came calling. And mostly I stuck with it because I loved the challenge of it, but also just the autonomy of it. It's two on two, just you and your partner, you're not one of the herd. And the lifestyle is unbeatable.” YearsMayTwoHomeWantedGirlChallengesHonestCallingPartnersStuckLifestyleAppealsBeing HonestBeachAutonomyHerdsStay At HomeMistyUnbeatable Author:Kerri Walsh
“I wanted to lose weight when it was my time to lose weight, not because someone's calling me out for it. I've been called the Fat Kardashian Sister for the past ten years. But I could have gone and gotten gastric [bypass surgery] or done liposuction or whatever and I did not feel the need to do that, and I didn't think - I sincerely didn't think anything was "wrong with me."” ThinkingNeedsFeelsYearsDoneWantedPastLosesGoneCallingTenWeightFatsMy TimeSurgerySincerelyLose WeightBypassGastric Author:Khloe Kardashian
“By the time I was a senior in high school, I was constantly with my headphones, just making music all the time. People were calling me a "musician", and I found that so weird.” PeopleSchoolFoundCallingMusicianHigh SchoolSeniorHeadphonesHigh School Senior Author:Nicolas Jaar
“If you look in the Muslim World right now, the Shia, the Sunni Muslims are standing at the brink of a pit of fire started by Western intervention and influence in pitting them against each other by exploiting their divisions. So the stage is set for war in that area of the world that would destroy that area as completely as what they are calling the failed state Libya making Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq failed states.” IfsWorldLooksWarStatesFireInfluenceStageCallingRight NowAreasStandingWesternIraqDivisionAfghanistanSyriaInterventionPitsLibyaMuslim WorldShia Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Dad, once an aspiring architect, drove his own catering truck to feed factory workers in downtown Los Angeles, and mom, with a Mensa IQ and mathematical gifts, served as a bookkeeper and worked in a grocery store while pursuing her calling in music: playing piano and composing songs. Perhaps in a way, part of my drive was to complete their unfulfilled ambitions and dreams, but in my own way.” WayDreamSongMy OwnMomDadCallingAmbitionWorkersStoresMathematicalPianoLos AngelesArchitectFactoriesTruckGroceriesComposingDowntownGrocery StoresCateringPlaying PianoFactory WorkersBookkeepersAmbitions And DreamsDowntown Los Angeles Author:Dan Millman
“I still have a hard time just calling myself a musician. If I'm talking to somebody and they ask me what I do, I say I play music.” IfsStillsHardPlayAsksTalkingCallingMusicianAsk MeHard Times Author:Grant Evans
“I think it's kind of crazy that we're still calling comedians "female comedians." That seems more like a sneak attack.” ThinkingKindStillsSeemsCrazyCallingFemaleComedianSneakFemale Comedian Author:Ilana Glazer
“The documentary we are working on is about my mother, Bev Umehara, for whom our film company, Bev's Girl Films, is named after. It is a passion project that I have wanted to make since her unexpected passing in 1999. The film is about my mother's calling which came late in life, at 47, when she made the sudden transformation from a humble hardworking secretary and mother of four, into a labor activist, a respected union leader, and a role model for rank-and-file workers, women of color, and for all Asian Pacific Americans.” MadeWantedFilmMotherGirlPassionCompanyLeaderRolesFourColorCallingProjectsLateModelsLaborTransformationUnionsWorkersHumblePassingPassingsUnexpectedActivistRole ModelsSecretaryDocumentariesAsianFilesPacificHardworking Author:Garth Kravits
“Acting is my calling. It is one of the things I was meant to do in this world, along with being a mother.” WorldMotherActingThis WorldCallingBeing A Mother Author:Michael Hyatt
“I wouldn't say music is my passion, or my calling, or anything like that. I mean, I don't really believe in that kind of stuff. Life is a series of chance happenings, so I just fell into it.” BelieveKindMeanLife IsPassionStuffChanceCallingMusic IsHappeningsSeriesMy PassionMusic Is My Passion Author:Zachary Cole Smith
“People seem to think, because of the way that the media has appropriated third-wave feminism or young feminism, that all young feminists are about is like pole dancing and girls gone wild and how empowering it is. Like they'll start calling anything feminist.” PeopleThinkingWaySeemsYoungGirlGoneFeminismMediaCallingThirdsDancingWaveFeministEmpoweringPole Dancing Author:Jessica Valenti
“Iran has been calling for it for years, and the Arab countries support it. Everyone except the United States and Israel support it. The U.S. won't allow it because it means inspecting Israel's nuclear weapons. The U.S. has continued to block it, and in fact blocked it again just a couple of days ago; it just wasn't widely reported. Iran's nuclear program, as U.S. intelligence points out, is deterrent, and the bottom line is that the U.S. and Israel don't want Iran to have a deterrent.” WantYearsMeanHas BeensCountryStatesFactsLinesUnitedUnited StatesSupportCoupleCallingWeaponsProgramBottomIsraelNuclearBlockIranNuclear WeaponsBottom LineBlockedDeterrent Author:Noam Chomsky
“I have to birth those ideas. Those designs have to come into the world. It's not only my goal, it's my reason for being on the planet. If I'm not doing them, then I'm not fulfilling my calling. It's very instinctual for me.” IfsWorldIdeasReasonGoalDesignPlanetsBirthCallingFulfilling Author:Jeremy Scott
“I try to use all aspects of media and my gifting and calling to help as many people as I can.” PeopleTryingI CanHelpingUseMediaCallingAspectGifting Author:DeVon Franklin
“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."” SaidGuyGirlCollegeCallingFedsFavourJuniorsFed UpOther Girl Author:Peggy Orenstein
“I do know that there is a difference between artists who are career-driven and artists who have a calling and are just compelled to make music, compelled to perform live, and the business isn't the reason they're doing it. In fact, there isn't really a reason. You just do it.” KnowsReasonFactsArtistDifferencesCareersCallingDrivenCompelledJust Do It Author:Ian Astbury
“In a way, that's also a recognition that Dante needs Virgil and that the Inferno needs the Aeneid and that the epic needs a model and that for Dante to write this great poem he needs someone to come before him and he turns to Virgil's text, especially book six where Aeneas goes down into the underworld. And for me, that's a model of the poet's relationship to previous poetry, to another poetry as calling out for guidance.” WayNeedsWritingBookTurnsPoetCallingSixModelsRecognitionGuidanceEpicUnderworldInfernoAeneas Author:Edward Hirsch
“I've been blessed, I think, to have tremendous joy in my life in pursuing my vocation, my calling.” ThinkingJoyCallingBlessedVocation Author:Cornel West
“I had blackouts, fallen out, of course, the death threats, people showing up, putting guns to my wife's head with mask, and people having shot guns in the driveway, looking for me or announcing that I've already died before lectures and sending it through newspaper - sending it to newspaper columns they send my mother and so on. There's a real night side to my particular calling, which is try to bear witness to love and truth.” PeopleTryingRealMotherNightCoursesSidesWifeParticularBearsCallingGunShotsDiedThreatMy WifeNewspapersWitnessFallenMaskLecturesColumnsShowing UpTruth And LoveAnnouncingDrivewayBlackouts Author:Cornel West
“It's hard to have a dialogue when you're name-calling.” HardNamesCallingDialogueName Calling Author:Joan Jett
“What I saw day-to-day is like people who are actually asking for freedom, calling for freedom - protesting, singing, chanting, calling for the removal of the regime - plain and simple. And of course there were clashes there because people, they tried to remove those protesters from Tahrir. And I was, like, doing my job as a doctor treating them.” PeopleJobsCoursesSimpleSawsCallingSingingDoctorsAskingRemoveRegimesDay To DayClashRemovalChantingPlain And Simple Author:Bassem Youssef
“With everything I've done from "Jackie Brown" on, I got really into really writing more prose in the - in what you're calling the stage directions, all right, and consequently my scripts have gotten bigger and bigger, and cut to "Kill Bill Volume 1 and 2."” WritingDoneStageCallingBiggerBillsScriptsProseBrownVolumeJackieKill BillStage DirectionsJackie Brown Author:Quentin Tarantino
“This is why I am calling you to See as God Sees every moment, for it is the only way to release the world you thought was there, in favor of a world that reflects who you really are.” WorldWayMomentsInspirationCallingFavorsRelease Author:James F. Twyman
“Yet another video has emerged of MIT professor and Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber calling Americans 'stupid,' and bragging about how the Affordable Care Act's drafters had to deceive the public in order to pass the law.” CareLawOrderStupidCallingVideoProfessorsArchitectDeceivingNotableObamacareAffordableBraggingMitAffordable Care Act Author:Alexander Viets Griswold
“So many of my friends have always been women growing up... I always feel slightly more comfortable around women because with guys in general there's always more of a danger zone... it's very aggressive sometimes the way guys act with each other, putting each other down and calling each other names, so I was always too sensitive for that and used to hang out with the girls. And they were always really funny to me.” WayFeelsSometimesUsedGuyGirlNamesGrowing UpGrowingDangerCallingComfortableMy FriendsDown AndSensitiveZoneHanging OutAggressive Author:Paul Feig
“51% of the French people - who are not very religious - were thinking that what "Charlie Hebdo" did was unwise. They aren't asking for a law to prevent Charlie Hebdo from publishing caricatures, but they are calling on its editors to be a bit more sensible.” PeopleThinkingLawBitsReligiousCallingAskingEditorsSensiblePublishingCharlieCaricaturesUnwiseCharlie Hebdo Author:Tariq Ramadan
“It's just like calling homosexuals 'gays.' Gay means happy! You know, it's just to try to dilute it so that it becomes socially acceptable, and if you say anything against homosexual marriage or anything - 'Oh, you're not tolerant.' So we're supposed to prostitute our principles, on behalf of tolerance.” IfsKnowsTryingMeanPrinciplesCallingGayToleranceAcceptableHomosexualSay AnythingBehalfHomosexual Marriage Author:Ted Cruz
“Labels are going to tie you down with a 360 deal, they take percentages of literally every endeavor you're tied to. It's a lot of stipulations and constraints placed on you. What makes it worse is that, in terms of distributing budgets, labels aren't even giving the same amount as they used to. It totally defeats the purpose. My advice would be to get it out there on your own first which will lead you to calling the shots.” GivingFirstsWould BeUsedPurposeTermDealsAdviceAmountCallingShotsDefeatLabelsBudgetsTiesEndeavorTiedPercentagesConstraintsStipulationsCalling The Shots Author:Ashanti
“I think Jesus is a fact of history. I think a man named Jesus of Nazareth lived and was crucified. I think his death interpreted his life in a fantastic way, because if you study that life carefully underneath an overlay of theology and mythology, you'll find that the power of that life was that he was constantly giving himself away. He was constantly calling people to be all that they could be.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenWayGivingFactsJesusStudyCallingMythologyTheologyFantasticNazareth Author:John Shelby Spong
“Originally what I used to love was being on a stage and reacting to a live audience and maybe my calling is more in theatre.” UsedAudienceStageCallingTheatreReactingUsed To Love Author:Emma Watson