“I think the best thing about being dumb is that it makes magic a lot better. Where the hell did that rat come from? I dunno, but I'm calling the cops because he just cut that lady in half.” ThinkingHalfHellCuttingMagicCallingDumbBest ThingsCopRats Author:Demetri Martin
“When I went into gospel, I didn't think it was respectful to still do R&B and gospel at the same time. It is not because of anything written or the church going off on me. It was more of Regina putting stipulations on herself and stating where she couldn't go because she got this calling in her life.” ThinkingStillsChurchWrittenCallingRespectfulStipulations Author:Regina Belle
“I think in my world of religion, you're called to preach or you don't preach. Called by God to preach. I never been ordained by God to preach the gospel. I have a calling, it's called to perform and sing.” ThinkingWorldCallingCalled By God Author:Johnny Cash
“As much as I try to grow as a lyricist, I tend to laugh at even calling myself that, because I think that my actual talents lie more in arrangements than they do words.” ThinkingTryingLyingGrowsLaughingTalentCallingArrangementsLyricists Author:Zach Condon
“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.” PeopleThinkingMenNeedsGivingEnoughAgeAmericaYoungParentNumbersResponsibilityTeacherCitizensCallingMen And WomenComplexesRingsFuelGood TimesFossilsCompetentFossil FuelYoungstersTime To ThinkBest Teacher Author:Hyman Rickover
“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.” PeopleThinkingInspirationalIdeasProblemInspirationNightCallingInnovationMeetingsHolesSomething NewNew ThingsNew IdeasMaking ChangesBest JobCreativity And InnovationHallwaysBusiness InnovationInnovation And BusinessReal JobsMeeting New PeopleDifferent JobsIdeas And InnovationInnovation And LeadershipSelf Inspirational Author:Steve Jobs
“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?” ThinkingCultureExampleCallingShotsImpactEnvironmentalRadicalBrandingGuardianComplacentAdvertisersCalling 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.” ThinkingGivingStoriesLightReadingEnemyAudienceFineCallingPerformancesBlowLove StoryDramaticAcademicLecturesRemindingConnotation Author:T.C. Boyle
“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.” ThinkingKnowsFirstsKindStillsMovingEasyParentKnow HowCallingTaxesFirst TimeTwentiesAll KindsTeenagerBreezy 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.” ThinkingWayIdeasWarSeemsTalkingTakenOne ThingTrumpHeroCallingRepublicanShotsImpactStartingCampaignsBeastVisibleManifestEstablishmentMccainKeep TalkingWar HeroMythical Beasts Author:Rachel Maddow
“I don't go around every other day calling for governors to resign. I don't think I ever have.” ThinkingCallingGovernors Author:Bernie Sanders
“I do think that calling a book nonfiction affirms a kind of responsibility to an attempt at truth.” ThinkingKindBookResponsibilityCallingNonfiction Author:Garth Greenwell
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“I've been blessed, I think, to have tremendous joy in my life in pursuing my vocation, my calling.” ThinkingJoyCallingBlessedVocation Author:Cornel West
“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
“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
“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.” ThinkingHardPastHugeCallingVocation Author:James Hillman
“I don't think I ever would have had a problem being vulnerable or introspective but the problem with drinking is it's very hard to zero in on one part. You're not dealing with anything in real time, you're constantly moving and constantly going. You're drinking to get away from things, things your dealing with. My wife might be calling me trying to argue and I don't wanna deal with it so I just go drink and by the time we talk again I'm so drunk I just don't care. I'll just deal with it however.” ThinkingTryingRealHardProblemMightCareMovingDealsWifeDrinkCallingDrinkingDon't CareMy WifeArguingDrunkVulnerableGet AwayZeroIntrospectiveConstantly Moving Author:Ryan Montgomery
“I think you have to take the man at his word [Donald Trump]. Is kind of an equal-opportunity insulter. He started by calling Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals. He moved on to denigrating John McCain's heroism during the Vietnam War. He has gone after people with disabilities. He has said Muslims should be kept out of our country. He certainly has gone after individual women in the media, in the political arena.” PeopleThinkingMenShouldKindSaidWarCountryPoliticalOpportunityIndividualGoneMediaHe ManTrumpCallingEqualMovedCriminalsOur CountryImmigrantsDisabilityVietnamHeroismArenaMexicanVietnam WarMccainMoved OnEqual OpportunityPeople With Disabilities Author:Hillary Clinton
“I think people are wrong to do it, to compare him to your way of wanting to do it. If you're passionate about it, do it and do it your way. It's not always going to be in front of the cameras after a football game - that was the way I did it. Somebody else has a different way, and that's [James] LeBron, and I know who he is. And I can't get into specifics, but it did upset me that people were calling him out for that because they were just wrong.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayI CanDifferentGamesFrontsFootballCallingCamerasPassionateCompareUpsetDifferent WaysFootball GameSpecifics Author:Andrew Hawkins
“If a person was accused of being a racist when he was young - he said some racially insensitive thing or someone had him on tape calling someone the n-word or whatever - and then you fast forward and he feels, Oh, back then I didn't say this or that. He's not thinking about the person that he hurt when he said what he said, or however it came out, or the effects that it could have had. He's not thinking about it. He's thinking about his own self and how he feels.” IfsThinkingFeelsPersonsSaidSelfYoungHurtEffectsCallingRacistTapeAccusedInsensitiveCalling Someone Author:Nate Parker
“I think James Bond is a spy. He's not superhuman. Calling him a superhero is like calling James Bond movies "comic-book movies."” ThinkingBookCallingComicComic BookSuperheroSpySuperhumanBond MovieJames Bond Movie Author:Kurt Busiek
“Unless you have multiple accounts that you need to negotiate and you think the project is just too big to tackle on your own, you're better off just calling your creditors directly.” ThinkingNeedsBigsCallingProjectsAccountsMultipleBetter OffCreditors Author:Jean Chatzky
“I started making work, and it's like, yes you are calling out all of these things that are part of your memory, your body's memory, things that have gone through your pores, what you've seen, what you've experienced, and you spill them out without thinking. I don't think so much about, "Okay, I'm going to make work, and it's going to be about this." It's just going to come out.” ThinkingBodyMemoriesGoneCallingOkayYour BodyOur MemoriesSpills Author:Leonardo Drew
“I think in everything we did, there's a sense of tension and a sense of things pulling in a different way. It's interesting calling it "beat music". That's quite true, the rhythm is up to the fore, it's got a slap bass, and it's got "funk" in the title. But I think there's always a level of irony when we did those kind of things.” ThinkingWayKindDifferentInterestingLevelsCallingBeatsRhythmTitlesIronyDifferent WaysTensionPullingBassSlapFunk Author:Stephen Mallinder
“We need to regain the art of civil discourse and more practically, I don't think you change anyone's mind by calling them names.” ThinkingNeedsMindArtNamesCallingDiscourse Author:Steven Petrow
“I think by the time I finished college I was calling myself a professional because I was, you know. I was making a living playing music.” ThinkingKnowsCollegeCallingFinishedPlaying MusicMaking A Living Author:Terry Bozzio
“I'm okay for things like theater and stuff but for film, I just didn't think in the right way and I didn't like the business. So I was unhappy. So I was in something that was moderately related to my, what I call my calling or my life's path, which is writing, but it wasn't like the right fit.” ThinkingWayWritingFilmStuffPathFitCallingOkayTheaterUnhappyRelatedRight Way Author:Robert Greene
“I have become the poster child for calling all the Trump people racists, when, in fact, I don't think they're all racists, but they tolerated racism. And that's a problem.” PeopleThinkingChildrenFactsProblemTrumpCallingRacismRacistPosters Author:Van Jones
“I don't think I can break down any doors, but I'm thinking, "Maybe I can be a cameraman, because I love the cameras." And the cameraman would show me how to thread the film, how to repair it, the lenses. That's when you become, like, goony goo-goo about it. You breathe and eat camera, and all of a sudden, you don't want anything else in the world. You finally know, "This is my calling." When you're passionate about something, it doesn't become work. It's art and it's fun. It's arduous, it's sweaty.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWantArtI CanShowsFilmFunBreakDoorsCallingCamerasPassionateBreatheWorking ItThreadShow MeBreaking DownLensesCameraman Author:Pam Grier
“The psychologists are valiantly trying to provide us with answers, the religious people are trying to provide us with answers. I think it properly falls on the cultural workers to investigate this predicament with a little less concern for the marketplace and a little more concern for their higher calling.” PeopleThinkingTryingLittlesFallReligiousAnswersHigherCallingConcernWorkersMarketplacePsychologistPredicamentsHigher Calling Author:Leonard Cohen
“When Denzel [Washington] first called me on the phone after we'd just done a reading of the film ["Fences"]. He said, "Oh Viola it was so good, wasn't it?! I'm gonna tell Russell [Hornsby] to lose a little bit of weight and..." I was just sitting there thinking, why is he calling me? And I told him, "Denzel don't you tell me to lose weight!" He said, "I'm not telling you to lose weight! I can't believe you would say that."” ThinkingFirstsBelieveLittlesSaidI CanDoneFilmReadingBitsLosesCallingLittle BitSittingWeightPhonesFenceLose WeightViolaDenzel Author:Viola Davis
“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.” PeopleThinkingNamesPositionInspireCallingDialogueSincere Author:Richard Dawkins
“I'm calling my initiative take the other to lunch. If you are a Republican, you can take a Democrat to lunch or if you're a Democrat, think of it as taking a Republican to lunch because there is no shortage of the other right in your own neighborhood, maybe that person who worships at the mosque or the church or the synagogue down the street or someone from the other side of the abortion conflict - or maybe your brother-in-law who doesn't believe in global warming.” IfsThinkingBelievePersonsLawSidesChurchStreetsBrotherCallingRepublicanConflictWorshipDemocratAbortionGlobal WarmingNeighborhoodLunchInitiativeIn-lawsShortageYour BrotherMosquesSynagogueBrother In Law Author:Elizabeth Lesser
“I felt better about myself that I did it [calling Max Askeli Commander Askeli], rather than have - rather than thinking it and not writing it for being afraid of what might happen to me.” ThinkingWritingMightHappensFeltCallingCommandersMaxBeing Afraid Author:Nat Hentoff
“I have a hunger for justice, but art is a place I've always enjoyed being able to be free - to live in worlds that you don't have to be thinking about that all the time. I don't see myself writing Upton Sinclair books. My books are to entertain, although to me, entertainment is to make you feel sadness or to get in touch with your own pain - or fear, or to remember somebody who has gone missing from your life. That's my calling.” ThinkingWorldFeelsWritingArtBookAblePainRememberJusticeGoneSadnessMissingCallingArt IsHungerEntertainmentEnjoyed Author:John Darnielle
“I think I can tell you how I experience God. I experience God as the power of life calling me to live, I experience God as the power of love calling me to love. That's the God I see in Jesus of Nazareth, that's the God I see in the fourth gospel.” ThinkingI CanJesusCallingFourthPower Of LoveNazareth Author:John Shelby Spong
“If a bunch of activists want to create the concept of "gay infertility" and then tax all the rest of us to compensate them for the fact that they can't have babies, then that's gonna happen. You haven't missed anything yet. I'm just teasing you as to what's coming. Gays now think it's not fair they can't have babies, so they're calling that "infertility," and it will require mandatory health insurance because of it. Yeah, I know they're not infertile but that doesn't matter; they can't have babies.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantMatterFactsHappensHavensBabyCallingGayTaxesConceptsFairsYeahBunchActivistTeaseNot FairInfertility Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think the media in America have been absolutely fantastic about the rise of Trump, they've kept a firm eye on the ball: this constitutes democracy, this constitutes transparency, this constitutes fairness, this constitutes the way to behave in a civic society, this constitutes fascism, this constitutes authoritarianism. They're drawing that line, and they're calling him out every time. That's really what needs to happen, and you just have to do that.” ThinkingWayNeedsHas BeensHappensEyeAmericaLinesDemocracyMediaTrumpCallingBallsDrawingFantasticFirmBehaveFascismFairnessTransparencyCivicsAuthoritarianism Author:Irvine Welsh
“The thing I get the most [in public] is, 'Hey, Eugene.' You know what I mean? There's no catch phrase like: 'What a week I'm having.' People will actually just say, 'Hey, Eugene' or 'Hi, Eugene.' It's a great thing; they feel that comfortable calling me by my first name. It's not being forward. It depends how you say it. I think they can't help themselves. They think they know me. I find it gratifying.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsFirstsMeanHelpingNamesWeekDependsCallingComfortableGreat ThingsHeyPhrasesKnow Me Author:Samuel L. Jackson
“We have to think in a very different sense than the way we think now. We think in terms of quick fixes, that solutions will come out of a few protest demonstrations, and calling upon the government to do something. And we can keep trying to do that, and it won't work.” ThinkingWayTryingDifferentGovernmentTermCallingSolutionsProtestDemonstrationKeep TryingQuick Fixes Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“I'm not calling for a boycott on voting. But I think it should be very clear that just voting is not going to solve our problems.” ThinkingShouldProblemClearCallingSolveVotingBoycott Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“I don't know what the comics community could do to make everyone feel welcome; I'm cynical and unsure if everyone can feel welcome, simply because so many people have conflicting ideas of what is welcoming, but I think that calling out creators and comic industry people who have harassed people and/or been abusive is a good first step. If we create a culture where those kinds of actions can no-longer go unchecked, then more people may feel welcome to participate and know that they will be heard if they experience unfairness.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsFeelsFirstsKindMayIdeasActionCultureCommunityStepsHeardIndustryCallingCreatorWelcomeComicCynicalFirst StepsAbusiveUnsureUnfairnessConflicting Ideas Author:Liz Prince
“I don't know how it happened, but everyone thinks I'm this crazy b***h. Maybe because I don't have eyebrows. A lot of bands talk s**t about me and I post a blog calling them out. F**k them. The future is bright pink so put on some sunglasses, b****es.” ThinkingKnowsKnow HowHappenedCrazyCallingBandPostsEyebrowsBlogsSunglassesFuture Is Bright Author:Jeffree Star
“I think as Christians, we all have the same calling, and that calling is to love God with all our heart, mind, and soul and love others as ourselves and to glorify God in everything that we do.” ThinkingMindHeartSoulChristianCallingAnd LoveGod LoveGlorifyHeart Mind And Soul Author:LeCrae