"Being in a state of mystery seems to be my calling."
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"Can you imagine me calling myself "Ruiz"? "Pablo Ruiz"? "Diego-José Ruiz"? Or "Juan-Népomucène Ruiz"? I was given I don't know how many names."
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"Instead of calling everybody names, start being more understanding."
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"Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it's hard to turn away. Then, of course, you're hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business."
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"To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should believe that he is sent to those whom he is addressing at the moment, because God has among them those whom He is at the moment calling; it requires that the speaker should expect a response."
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"When your dad's a cop, calling 911 is really just like calling Dad at work."
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"The really royal calling of the philosopher (as expressed by Alcuin the Anglo-Saxon): To correct what is wrong, and strengthen the right, and raise what is holy."
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"I am proposing to create another kind of business, based on "selflessness" that is in all of us. I am calling it social business."
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"God, here and there, makes madness a calling."
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"In retrospect, of course I regret calling them (Charlton fans) morons. Imbeciles would have been more appropriate."
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"The only thing that will keep you from finding that which you seek is calling off the search."
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"Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory."
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"Mr. Nixon has, in the last seven days, called me an economic ignoramus, a Pied Piper, and all the rest. I've just confined myself to calling him a Republican. But he says that is getting low."
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"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."
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"I was wondering — I mean — could there be some mistake? Because nobody called me and Scrubb, you know. It was we who asked to come here. You would not have called me unless I had been calling you."
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"What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to bend its edge. But most won't even stand close to the blade. I'm one of those. We don't bend anything."
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"Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg."
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"The English have a scornful insular way Of calling the French light."
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"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."
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"People love science and all it offers, but they also feel a calling in themselves to the sense of what's deeper."
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